Re: [opensuse] Permissions and Catch-22

2008-01-21 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Randall R Schulz wrote: On Thursday 17 January 2008 20:17, Aaron Kulkis wrote: Patrick Shanahan wrote: ... mount | column -t Very nice. There's lots of places where I can use the "column" command. I can't believe I never encountered it before. Yes, but it's so new. The man pages were author

Re: [opensuse] Permissions and Catch-22

2008-01-18 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Thursday 17 January 2008 20:17, Aaron Kulkis wrote: > Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > ... > >> > >>> mount | column -t > >> > >> Very nice. There's lots of places where I can use the "column" > >> command. I can't believe I never encountered it before. > > > > Yes, but it's so new. The man pages we

Re: [opensuse] Permissions and Catch-22

2008-01-18 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Patrick Shanahan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Randall R Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01-17-08 15:38]: On Thursday 17 January 2008 11:02, Don Raboud wrote: On Wednesday 16 January 2008 16:38, Randall R Schulz wrote: (I chose "df" instead of the more obvious "mount" sim

Re: [opensuse] Permissions and Catch-22

2008-01-17 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Randall R Schulz wrote: On Wednesday 16 January 2008 14:49, Stan Goodman wrote: ... Obviously, I can't do anything with the great majority of the folders and files. But I could, if only I could do some chmod commands in the terminal. But I can't use the terminal, because it sees nothing. Catch-

Re: [opensuse] Permissions and Catch-22

2008-01-17 Thread Patrick Shanahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Randall R Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01-17-08 15:38]: > On Thursday 17 January 2008 11:02, Don Raboud wrote: > > On Wednesday 16 January 2008 16:38, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > > (I chose "df" instead of the more obvious "mount" simply because > > >

Re: [opensuse] Permissions and Catch-22

2008-01-17 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Thursday 17 January 2008 11:02, Don Raboud wrote: > On Wednesday 16 January 2008 16:38, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > (I chose "df" instead of the more obvious "mount" simply because > > the output is easier to read, in my opinion.) > > mount | column -t Very nice. There's lots of places where I

Re: [opensuse] Permissions and Catch-22

2008-01-17 Thread Don Raboud
On Wednesday 16 January 2008 16:38, Randall R Schulz wrote: > (I chose "df" instead of the more obvious "mount" simply because the > output is easier to read, in my opinion.) mount | column -t make the output much easier to read. -- Don -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For addition

Re: [opensuse] Permissions and Catch-22

2008-01-17 Thread Stan Goodman
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 14:09 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > The Thursday 2008-01-17 at 14:21 +0200, Stan Goodman wrote: > > >> "Sees nothing?" > > > > Nothing: returns nothing at all, returms "0". > > ... > > > It's obvious to me that I

Re: [opensuse] Permissions and Catch-22

2008-01-17 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2008-01-17 at 14:21 +0200, Stan Goodman wrote: "Sees nothing?" Nothing: returns nothing at all, returms "0". ... It's obvious to me that I misinterpreted the information on page "man fstab", and have not mounted these two part

Re: [opensuse] Permissions and Catch-22

2008-01-17 Thread Stan Goodman
On Thursday 17 January 2008 01:38 Randall R Schulz wrote: > On Wednesday 16 January 2008 14:49, Stan Goodman wrote: > > ... > > > > Obviously, I can't do anything with the great majority of the folders > > and files. But I could, if only I could do some chmod commands in the > > terminal. But I can

Re: [opensuse] Permissions and Catch-22

2008-01-16 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Wednesday 16 January 2008 14:49, Stan Goodman wrote: > ... > > Obviously, I can't do anything with the great majority of the folders > and files. But I could, if only I could do some chmod commands in the > terminal. But I can't use the terminal, because it sees nothing. > Catch-22. "Sees nothi

[opensuse] Permissions and Catch-22

2008-01-16 Thread Stan Goodman
There are two partitions in my OS/2 installation that I wish to have available to Linux as well; they are formatted with JFS (OS/2 implementation, of course). I had no difficulty in doing this in openSuSE v10.2, but I am having a knotty problem with it now, in v10.3. In fstab, each of these partit