I mounted the macos disk: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda11 2.9G 2.3G 430M 85% / /dev/hda10 8.2G 7.9G 266M 97% /mnt/macos
is -la /mnt/macos produced the info below. nb - Notice the date Jan 1904! I checked both Mac and Mandrake clocks and thay are set to the right date and time. The other linux distro I used was quite old and various features,for example the firewire drive access, were 'experimental' and tended to crash the computer from time to time,setting all clocks back: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ls -la /mnt/macos total 277082 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 92 Jan 1 1904 ./ drwxrwxrwx 6 root root 4096 Jan 8 11:20 ../ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4 Jan 1 1904 1/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8 Jan 1 1904 Acrobat Reader 4.0/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 759 Jan 10 2003 Acrobat Reader 4.0 Install Log drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11 Jan 1 1904 Adaptec Toast 4.1.2/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 16 Jan 1 1904 Apple Extras/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 534528 Oct 5 2003 AppleShare PDS drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 16 Jan 1 1904 Applications/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6 Jan 1 1904 Assistants/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9 Jan 1 1904 BBEditLite Folder/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2 Jan 1 1904 Cleanup At Startup/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 26 Jan 1 1904 compression:expansion / -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1069056 Feb 6 11:16 Desktop DB -r--r--r-- 1 root root 3696794 Dec 18 18:58 Desktop DF drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 152 Jan 1 1904 Desktop Folder/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10 Jan 1 1904 Desktop Resetter 2.8 �/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5 Jan 1 1904 Documents/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4819 Oct 9 2000 download\WritePDF_MAC.PDF -r--r--r-- 1 root root 5203 Aug 18 2002 DummyDB.cwk -r--r--r-- 1 root root 5262 Aug 18 2002 DummySS.cwk -r--r--r-- 1 root root 3608 Aug 18 2002 DummyWP.cwk drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11 Jan 1 1904 Eudora Application Folder/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 256 Oct 1 2003 Ext Devices FDG -r--r--r-- 1 root root 39 Dec 25 2002 FinaleNotePad-serialNumber -r--r--r-- 1 root root 3483 Apr 19 2002 Installation Log -r--r--r-- 1 root root 26238 Jun 27 2004 Installer Log File drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14 Jan 1 1904 Installer Logs/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10 Jan 1 1904 MacGSView/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 13957 Jan 8 2003 MacGSView Installer Log File -r--r--r-- 1 root root 46080 Aug 18 2002 MacLink Export Translators -r--r--r-- 1 root root 46080 Aug 18 2002 MacLink Import Translators -r--r--r-- 1 root root 207279 Feb 1 2003 Ma(r)xTutorials drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 361 Jun 17 1978 Max:MSP/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17 Jan 1 1904 MidiShare/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 179 Jun 12 2002 _nautilus-metafile.xml drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3 Jan 1 1904 Opcode/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 27 2000 OpenFolderListDF? drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6 Jan 1 1904 Silverlining Pro Folder/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1209 Oct 4 2003 Snapz Pro 2 Installer Log drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5 Jan 1 1904 SoundAppPPC 2.7.3/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 55 Jul 24 1972 System Folder/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 267 Jan 1 1904 Temporary Items/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3 Jan 1 1904 TheFindByContentFolder/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4 Jan 1 1904 TheVolumeSettingsFolder/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6 Jan 1 1904 Trash/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 5621 Apr 25 2002 TypeChanger drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5 Jan 1 1904 Utilities/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 274726912 Feb 7 20:54 VM Storage [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# I hope this is more illuminating ;-) cheers, Nev On Tuesday 08 February 2005 01:02 am, David G Stevenson wrote: > RickSisler wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >>>Could you post the output of: > >>># ls -la /mnt/macos > >> > >>It gave this: > >> > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ls -la /mnt/macos > >>total 8 > >>dr--r-x--x 2 root users 4096 Jan 8 18:03 ./ > >>drwxrwxrwx 6 root root 4096 Jan 8 11:20 ../ > > What you see there is /mnt/macos is empty. All it contains is the > special files . and .. > > This means that the macos directory had dr--r-x--x and is owned by root > but is in the users group. > > /mnt has drwxrwxrwx which means anyone on the machine can create > files/directories here. > > > I assume that the macos disk is not actually mounted at present. Running: > > % df -h > > will show if this is the case or not. > > As for the macos directory, it would be proper for the permisions to be: > > drwxr-xr-x > > so, > > % chmod 755 /mnt/macos > > would suffice. If you wanted users in the 'user' group to be able to > write to the macos directory, then: > > % chmod 775 /mnt/macos > > would do. > > Usually, I would not allow write access to the macos directory, but > create a directory in the macos dir which has more open permissions. > > Once you have the disk mounted (assuming that the disk is not mounted in > your example output above) you would need to provide more info as to > what sort of data is on there (I have never used MacOS). > > HTH > > David. > > > OK, that doesn't seem right ay, but .. > > hmm, what was the permissions for the macos before you changed it? > > If you used to be able to read, write and execute on it then, the > > owner root, should have rwx, and r-x for the group members .. > > atleast to view it right, which is why you were trying 755 .. > > and as root, chmod 755 /mnt/macos .. didnt work ? I'm stumped .. > > So I hope someone with more experience than me jumps in soon 8) > > <snip>
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