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22.04 Doesn't Have permission to access files when boot

sk flag

Yesterday I noticed that I was running out of space on my ubuntu partition. I have a dual boot. I cleared 30Gb from a simple storage partition and was trying to give it to the ubuntu one.

I noticed that i cannot do that and most probably I pressed the take ownership button from the Disks tool.

After that i noticed that the battery icon showed 0% and I tried a reboot.

And since then i was not able to access ubuntu.

I tried the recovery mode. I tried boot-repair. I cleaned around 10GB of space from that partition. I tried to enable the failed service files that failed when I used systemctl status.

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cn flag
It is totally unclear what you did. Can you elaborate "I cleared 30Gb from a simple storage partition", "was trying to five it to the ubuntu one", "I pressed the take ownership button from the Disks tool"?
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cn flag
Most likely you removed something important from the system. The only feasible option would be to re-install.
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sk flag
Sure thing. I resized a partition where there is no OS, just simple storage. it's named D on my device. That 30GB was now names free space. After that I tried to resize the ubuntu partition. I noticed I cannot add more space to it and tried to gain permision to do so. One of the options was to take ownership of that partition. Which i think i did. after that I tried to reboot and it does not reboot anymore
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cn flag
What is "just simple storage"? 1) You can't resize partitions of a working system. 2) Changing ownership of system files ruins the system. Hence reinstall.
iugin avatar
sk flag
That will probably be the final solution. I was trying to see if i can gain access to the browser from ubuntu to backup some information. But i guess it is what it is.
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cn flag
You can boot from a LiveUSB and backup your files.
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