Hi Michael, you solved my problem.
Thank you very...very much.... your brief information is so significant for me. Thank you very much. ==== On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:41:06 -0400 Michael Derek Barnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Hi Patrik, > > You're having a problem with file permissions, but it's pretty easy to > solve this. I'm not sure how familiar you are with how linux deals with > permissions, but I'll try to make this brief. You can find much better > explanations online (the link dave howorth posted for you is a good > place to start.) > > this bit: > > >>> total 26 > >>> drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2007-07-24 18:41 datatank > >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 88 2007-07-25 02:30 .hal-mtab > >>> --wS--Sr-x 1 root root 0 2007-07-22 07:43 .hal-mtab-lock > >>> dr-xr-xr-x 8 patrikh root 6144 2007-01-03 09:39 openSUSE10.2-IL022007 > >>> drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 2007-07-24 02:27 sementara > >>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-07-23 05:31 sementara2 > >>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-11-28 04:02 xmms_audio_cd > >>> suseonthelap:/ # whoami > > ^^^^^^^^^^ means r-read w-write x-execute for owner (in this case > root, as it says next to the chart), then group (also root,) then other. > > the two partitions in questions are owned by user root and group root, > but are only writable by the user. i'm not sure how'd you set up > /etc/fstab to make them writable by a different user/group, but it's > easy enough to change the ownership or permissions outside manually. > > if you are the only one on your system, the simplest thing to do would > be (at a command prompt as root) chown patrickh datatank which would > set you as the owner user of the file. if you have multiple users on > your system and aren't too worried about security you could instead > change the permissions with chmod 777 datatank which would set the > permissions to read, write, execute for everyone on the system. > > if you just want to swap data back and forth between the partitions, you > might be best off using chown or chmod on specific directories rather > than making the whole thing completely accessible. for instance, you > could just chown patrickh /media/datatank/home/patrickh (assuming you're > using the same logins, etc. etc.) which would allow your patrickh user > on suse to access fully the home directories on the other partitions, > but would require you to login as root to go in and change the important > config files on those other partitions. > > Derek > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFGp28Sg39m4F98CH4RAgnXAJ4tSz4mPIbp7spWg0HZ2ZUZGxbC3QCfSO1e > WzDsCjc9N5jXhVBN5/KhYwE= > =Zn6G > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- Patrik Hasibuan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Junior Programmer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
