On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:51:06 +1000 Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 01:22, Gilligan wrote: > > Logging in as root and doing ls -? does show all files and the correct > > sizes. 90% of files have a setting of > > > > -rwxr--r-- > > > > Can't remember exactly what they mean, cept for X execute and > > r=read/w=write. Am I correct in assuming the reason they don't show up > > in Nat. is permissions? How can I change permissions to be able to > > read/write all of the drive? > > > > A BIG Thanks > > I think you have to put yourself in the "wheel" group...(tired, can't > quite remember, but it's relatively easy) > > stephen kuhn - owner > ============================== > illawarra computer services > a kuhn media australia company > http://kma.0catch.com > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * > We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > And yet I should have dearly liked, I own, to have touched her lips; to > have questioned her, that she might have opened them; to have looked > upon the lashes of her downcast eyes, and never raised a blush; to have > let loose waves of hair, an inch of which would be a keepsake beyond > price: in short, I should have liked, I do confess, to have had the > lightest license of a child, and yet been man enough to know its value. > -- Charles Dickens > > I think it's the "executable" flag. If you can clear that, you should be able to open the files normally. I had a directory full of family pictures on a fat32 directory and couldn't view them for anything in Linux. They kept disappearing like you described. I used Konqueror as root (I find that the easiest to reset attributes) and turned off the "x" for the entire directory, and everything showed up as originally expected.
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