>>>>> "P" == P Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
P> Hey Bob. Puzzling one this. You should cc the group on all
P> mail as athere are way more skilled players than me.
Sorry. I thought I was. I have to remember to hit 'F' instead of 'R'
when replying.
P> soemting is very odd here. As root you can go to / and command
P> rm -rf /* and watch the whole OS disappear. So I don't
P> understand why you * can't chown the contents of the partition.
P> Next step:
P> As root:
P> mkdir /testdir chown sue /testdir mount -t msdos /dev/hda??
P> /testdir ls /testdir
P> You ought to see the contents of /testdir.
P> chown -R /testdir/*
That's an error. Invalid user. I hope you meant to say:
chown -R sue /testdir/*
and if you did, here's the bottom of what scrolled off my xterm:
chown: /testdir/recycled/de14/sprynet/agent.ini: Operation not permitted
chown: /testdir/recycled/de14/sprynet/custenu.tlx: Operation not permitted
chown: /testdir/recycled/de14/sprynet/groups.dat: Operation not permitted
chown: /testdir/recycled/de14/sprynet/groups.idx: Operation not permitted
chown: /testdir/recycled/de14/sprynet/grpdat.bak: Operation not permitted
chown: /testdir/recycled/de14/sprynet/grpidx.bak: Operation not permitted
chown: /testdir/recycled/de14/sprynet/layout.dat: Operation not permitted
chown: /testdir/recycled/de14/sprynet/mailfilt.old: Operation not permitted
chown: /testdir/recycled/de14/sprynet/mfilters.dat: Operation not permitted
chown: /testdir/recycled/de14/sprynet/mfilters.idx: Operation not permitted
chown: /testdir/recycled/de14/sprynet/mwords.dat: Operation not permitted
chown: /testdir/recycled/de14/sprynet/mwords.idx: Operation not permitted
chown: /testdir/recycled/de14/sprynet/outbox.dat: Operation not permitted
chown: /testdir/recycled/de14/sprynet/outbox.idx: Operation not permitted
chown: /testdir/recycled/de14/sprynet/personal.aab: Operation not permitted
chown: /testdir/recycled/de14/sprynet/ranges.dat: Operation not permitted
chown: /testdir/recycled/de14/sprynet/shortc~1.lnk: Operation not permitted
chown: /testdir/recycled/de14/sprynet/urltype.dat: Operation not permitted
chown: /testdir/summary.dat: Operation not permitted
bear:~#
P> If this doesn't work,
P> chown -R /testdir/* > chownfail.txt
P> mail -s Re:mountpermissionproblems debian-user@lists.debian.org
P> <chownfail.txt
See if cc'ing the group and the copy/paste above does it.
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