looks like maybe you "su" ed to root and still have the users permissions?
brian ;}
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At 12:35 PM 4/21/00 -0500, you wrote:
>great !! thank you
>thing is , I figured that I could just mount it like any other drive.
>So , I wanted to format the drive and do an fsck on it , but now , for some
>reason , fsck is not found.
>Nor is fdisk found , is there something I forgot to compile in the os?
>this is what I am getting :
>
>
>[root@xxxxx /root]# fsck
>bash: fsck: command not found
>[root@xxxxx /root]# e2fsck
>bash: e2fsck: command not found
>[root@xxxxx /root]# fdisk
>bash: fdisk: command not found
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Matthew Saltzman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Friday, April 21, 2000 11:44 AM
>Subject: Re: SyQuest SyJet 1.5g removable drive
>
>
>> "eric clover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> >SyQuest SyJet 1.5g removable drive == ext scsi 50pin
>> >and thank you for the reply
>>
>> Congratulations on owning a really nice white elephant. I have the
>> internal SCSI one on my Linux system and an external one on a Solaris
>> system at work. It's been a while, but I don't think there is much to
>> it. It's almost just like another fixed SCSI drive.
>>
>> (1) Hook it up, and make sure it is properly terminated.
>>
>> (2) Boot into your SCSI controller BIOS (if you have one--I have a
>> BusLogic card) and make sure your SCSI controller sees the drive and
>> knows it's removable.
>>
>> (3) Boot into Linux. The drive should be the next one in sequence
>> after any other SCSI drives (but choice of SCSI id may affect that).
>> The disks come formatted as single-partition vfat file-systems, so if
>> you have one fixed scsi drive at id 0, the SyJet will be /dev/sdb1.
>> (You can always reformat the disk to be ext2 instead.)
>>
>> (4) Create a mount point, e.g., /mnt/jet.
>>
>> (5) Add an entry in /etc/fstab. Mine looks like:
>>
>> /dev/sdb1 /mnt/jet vfat
>user,noexec,dev,nosuid,rw,uid=0,gid=301,perm=775 0 0
>>
>> The user parameter lets you mount the drive as a regular user. I
>> tried to make mine group-writable by some users with access to my
>> other Windows files (hence the gid and perm), but I haven't been able
>> to make it work right yet. (Suggestions, anyone?)
>>
>> (5) Mount the drive.
>>
>> mount /mnt/jet
>>
>> (If the disk is in place on boot, it will mount automatically. Also,
>> Gnome seems to know about it and creates a desktop icon for it.)
>>
>> (6) Enjoy.
>>
>> (7) Unmount the drive.
>>
>> umount /mnt/jet
>>
>> Eject with the button on the front of the drive.
>>
>> Let me know if you have problems.
>>
>> Matthew Saltzman
>> Clemson University Math Sciences
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
>>
>> >> >hello,
>> >> >I have a SyQuest SyJet 1.5g removable drive I'd like to get working
>with
>> >my
>> >> >box , it is running rh 6.1.
>> >> >I have not found any man's or howto's on a SyJet.
>> >> >anyone have any suggestions on how to get it going , please?
>> >>
>> >> What kind is it? Internal/external, IDE/SCSI/Parallel?
>>
>>
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