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It wont let me open the flash drive to get the files I need. Anyone know the line of code I need to put me as root. I would like to stay root.

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    Running sudo su will keep you as root. Use with caution. – stumblebee May 23 '18 at 17:07
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    sudo su root will make you the root user on command line. However, I'm guessing you probably just need to change the owner of the mounted flash drive, which should be located under /media/username/drivename. In the cli from /media/username you can run sudo chown -R username drivename which should make it accessible to you from the Ubuntu GUI. – phandolin May 23 '18 at 17:08

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Ubuntu is designed so you don't need to be root; instead you do 

sudo -i

inside a terminal emulator window which bestows the rights of root.

However, it's safer to use 

sudo *commmandtoexecute*

as needed; for example, if you want to open the file manager in Ubuntu with the rights of root, do

sudo nautilus

A good explanation of the options available with sudo, can be found in the answers at What are the differences between "su", "sudo -s", "sudo -i", "sudo su"?

And, this is done for user safety and administrator sanity. root is just too powerful and it's far too easy to break a system and/or destroy data to be in root all the time.

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