> Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2017 at 11:05 PM > From: "Bruce Dubbs" <[email protected]> > To: "ALFS Discussion and Development List" > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [alfs-discuss] Dumb but important qn > > Teresa Williams wrote: > > Every time I use jhalfs I battle the starting setup. > > I create a partition, and make a file system in it, > > Then I mount it at $LFS, usually /mnt/lfs, and check out jhalfs. > > But what permissions and ownership should $LFS have? Can't spot the answer > > in the READMEs. > > Typically you are going to format and mount the $LFS partition as root. > You should downlad and install jhalfs as your normal user but still create > the lfs user as in Chapter 4. > > The issue you mention occurs when running jhalfs. The mounted partition > needs to allow writing as the user running jhalfs. You can do that by > either changing the ownership of the mounted lfs partition to the user > running jhalfs or changing permissions to 777. > > In either case, after booting into your newly built lfs system, change / > ownership/permissions to root.root rwxr-xr-x. You probably also need to > have sudo set up to allow your user to enter root without a password. > > The other alternative is to run jhalfs as root, but I do not do that. > > -- Bruce
Many thanks Bruce - nice to have this cleared up. Teresa -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/alfs-discuss FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
