Re: One more try...lost permissions on drives

On Thu, 11 May 2006 03:01:33 +0200, houghi wrote:

Hachiroku wrote:
This is getting frustrating. SU doesn't work, logging in as root doesn't
work, setting the number doesn't take, etc.

Anybody have a hint?

Are my posts winding up in the Twilight zone or something?
One more time:
My computer zpped last week. Files scattered all over the place. Half of
9.3 in Lost + Found.

Tried to repair it. Tried to reload it. No Good. Still had problems
getting things to work.

Blew away the 9.3 boot partition and loaded 10.0. Now I do not have write
access to any of the partitions except the new 10.0 root partition.]
YaST doesn't help.
root hasn't got enough permission to change the permissions on the other
drives/partitions in the system. I don't know how to change permissions.

I have a USB disk that is fat32. I changed the mount point permissions.
None of my 'users' can write to anything =but the root partition on the
first HDD.

chown doesn't work.
chmod doesn't work. Maybe I'm not phrasing the command properly.

Is there anything else I need to explain?

And where the hell did my forst two posts go?

I haven't had this many problems with SuSE since I started using it three
years ago.





Yes. Give some feedback, because I have no idea what you are talking
about and what the Soviet Union has to do with anything
http://www.plainfaqs.org/linux/alt-os-linux-suse-FAQ/Unanswered-Posts.html

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