-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 02:53:14PM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 10 November 2016 10:53:47 Richard Owlett wrote: > > On 11/9/2016 5:16 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Sunday 06 November 2016 16:47:00 Richard Owlett wrote: > > >> [snip] > > >> Based on responses to previous posts titled "Trivial script will > > >> NOT execute" and "Permissions for an entire PARTITION" I have > > >> multiple problems understanding Linux file systems generally. > > > > > > I imagine you have seen this lot - especially the top three?? > > > https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=basic+debian+file+system&oq=basic+debia > > >n+file+system&aqs=chrome..69i57.7617j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 > > > > > > Lisi > > > > Yes, but not in the context of a sub-project from last few days. > > I suspect what I aiming at might look like - the groups and > > permission bits set at time partition created, thus avoiding > > games with /etc/fstab . > > > > richard@jessie-defaults:~$ > > richard@jessie-defaults:~$ ls -l /dev/sd* > > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 Nov 10 03:35 /dev/sda > > brw-rw---- 1 root owl 8, 1 Nov 10 03:35 /dev/sda1 > > brw-rw-r-- 1 root owl 8, 2 Nov 10 03:35 /dev/sda2 > > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 3 Nov 10 03:35 /dev/sda3 > > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 5 Nov 10 03:35 /dev/sda5 > > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 16 Nov 10 04:43 /dev/sdb > > br--rw-r-- 1 root owl 8, 17 Nov 10 04:43 /dev/sdb1 > > richard@jessie-defaults:~$ > > > > >> My current homework is to now re-read ~40 posts and a to be > > >> determined number of referenced links. Keywords will likely > > >> include path, working directory, inode and mount ;/ > > >> > > >> -- > > >> If retirement isn't for learning, what use is it. > > Richard - are you clear that the permissions are not for the partitions but > for the directories on the mount points on the filing system on which those > partitions have been hung??
Now I'm confused: what Richard shows up there are the permissions of the *device files* in which (presumably, sometimes) some file system might reside. Those file systems might (or might not) be mounted on some directory in the file system tree (which we don't see here). I think I didn't understand you. Regards - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlgkjjkACgkQBcgs9XrR2kZc3QCdHwipsWGXye5IS2jXoIuaGfGO nD0AniRApYYpR0N5yrPLIbrODNIUHbND =U0+T -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----