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


"Michael Soibelman" <I-wont-tell-if-u-don't@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hachiroku wrote:

On Thu, 11 May 2006 00:18:28 +0100, Robert Hull wrote:

In alt.os.linux.suse, on Thu 11 May 2006 00:05, Hachiroku
<Trueno@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

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

This is not even an averagely good attempt at a troll.

This person has posted messages like this three times recently. He/she
will not give more accurate information when requested. he/she will not
say what happens when he/she tries the advice that has been offered.
[snip]
Winblows is looking better and better every day.

I dare say that it would to someone who is unwilling to be helped.


From my other post:

I recently had a blowout on 9.3; had to reload the OS. Reloading over the
old 9.3 installation didn't work, so I blew the boot partition away and
started over.

Now, I have lost all permissions on the other disks and partitions. I
can't write to them, i can only view them. Even if I log in as root and
try to change ownership, I get an error I do not have priveledge to do
this.

Short of backing up and starting all over, how can I regain ownership of
the disks? I have 3 IDE disks and one USB disk; I can only write to the
root partition on the boot drive.

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I'm running SuSE 10. My machine winked off on SuSE 9.3; I tried to
recover, ran resierfsck, tried to reload 9.3, tried to rrepair 9.3; blew
the disk away and loaded 10.0

I can't access any partition other than my root partition.
I can't change the view numbers.
I can't do anything through YaST, file browser, Nautilus, Konquerer, or
anything else.

I don't know how to change the number or take ownership.

If I can't fix this very soon, it isn't going to matter, because I'll
pack
all the *** locked in these drives onto CDs, get rid of SuSE (which I
have been using fairly well for three years) and just put it all on
Winodws partitions and reload W2K, where I don't have any problems taking
ownership of a drive.

In other words I'M F@CKING PISSED.

Snide remarks aren't helping! Jeeze, I come here looking for HELP, not to
be called a fucking Troll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And, what advice has been offered?!?! I can't see it in PAN if it was.
I'm
having trouble with Pan, also. It's not loading all the messages from the
group; all I see is my initial request. I also looked at work using
Outhouse Express.

Sorry if I come across as cross, but this is getting FRUSTRATING. I never
had these problems on 9.3.

Maybe try this. Boot to the #1 CD. Choose the Install Option. After you
choose the language the system will be analyzed. (this is from memory so
the exact steps may vary !!). Next choose the repair option. This will
give the option to either select which item(s) you want to repair OR
automatic repair. This (automatic)is what you probably want. Hopefully
this will repair your boot sector and permissions as well. If YOU hosed
your install don't get angry at this group. That will get you nowhere!

Sorry!! Just getting frustrated.
And, I really don't know what happened! I was trying to go to NBC's Web
site, in Mozilla; the page started to load, and then I heard what *sounded*
like a *wince*, the screen went dead, the hard drive lights all lit up and
that was it! I waited about 10-12 minutes to see if it would recover and it
didn't. So, I powered off.

I blame NBC! (this isn't the first time I've had troble with their web
site!)


You may have to select the specific items under the repair option. You'll
definitely need to repair the boot sector..Pay close attention as your
exact partition information may come in handy at this point.

If all else fails wipe out everything on all disks and start over!

But, even if that is necessary you can still start up with the #1 cd and
mount the file system(s) manually. Then you can save everything of
importance to a cd or zip drive or some other medium. I also hosed my
system a couple of years ago and had to do this. In fact, I recently (a
month or so ago) saw someone had to do this. No matter how badly you
fucked up your system you CAN save your data. I know, because I've done
this.... I'll never panic again , though it may cause some stress!!!

Well, I *am* up and running under 10.0; just can't write to any disks.
What's odd is, one of them is a USB disk, it came preformatted Fat32;
sipposedly, there aren't any Linux permissions on a Fat32 disk. I have set
the mount point to be readable by all, but still the disk remains locked for
writing. Now, i *can* write to it as root, but I can't change permissions.


I suggest you just leave it alone until you cool off!!! Then come back
here
again for information. Yes, hosing your system is frustrating !! So
learn
to not do whatever it is that caused you to hose it and get over it.

IT's YOUR FAULT, NOT OURS !!!!!!!

SORRY!!!
But I kind of take offense at being called a Troll, when I posted a lot of
the info already, and esp by Robert. I've been gone for a while, but we used
to have some interesting discussions. Guess he doesn't remember...


We've all been there and it sucks....Just remember the computer is just
some
piece of stuff. IT HAS NO EMOTIONS...It will patiently LET YOU fix it.

Don't PANIC............

OK. But I know where my towel's at! ;)


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