On Sunday 22 Jun 2014 09:08:32 Mark Beardsley wrote:
> Fully intending to kick Windows off of my PC, I have been looking at a few
> Linux distros recently. Bodhi is one and it, of course, uses Enlightenment
> as it's window manager.
>
> Running the OS - both versions 2.4 (E17) and 3.0rc1 (E19) - from live CD's
> I have found it impossible to change the name of a directory; this seems
> to hold whether I create the directory myself or attempt to alter the name
> of an existing one.
The OS is some Linux distribution, not e17 or e19, which are different
versions of the Enlightenment desktop environment.
How exactly are you trying to change the name of a directory? Can you give an
example of the commands that you are running?
> Does anyone know of a cause or reason for this? Could it be the fact I am
> running from Live CD's? Might it be a permissions problem? Or maybe
> something else.
You wouldn't be able to make changes on the LiveCD filesystem, because it is a
read only iso, but you should be able to make changes on any mounted
filesystems on the PC that you are running the iso - as long as you are trying
to make such changes as the same user you mounted the fs with.
e.g. running as root:
# mkdir /mnt/sda3
# mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/sda3
# mkdir /mnt/sda3/my_dir_1
# mv /mnt/sda3/my_dir_1 /mnt/sda3/my_dir_2
If you then tried to make changes as a different user, e.g. knoppix, you will
find that knoppix does not have the appropriate access rights to modify the
mounted filesystem. Also, many LiveCDs automount filesystems as read only, so
you could try remounting the filesystem as rw.
In any case, on an installed OS you will be able to automount the filesystem
with rw access rights as a plain user and make changes to it, as long as you
have installed udisks.
HTH.
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Regards,
Mick
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