Thanks for the suggestions on my problem with a corrupted root pw. I was
able to get a new root pw via the route of using sudo to change the root
password. I checked it by bringing up the system in single user mode and
entered the new password and it worked. I also checked it by issuing su
and gave the new password, which worked. Thanks to all you replied. This
really helped me out!
Comer
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 6:40 AM, <
debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org> wrote:
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> debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2015 :
> Issue 51
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> Today's Topics:
> Re: Directories changing their side [ The Wanderer <
> wande...@fastmail.fm> ]
> Re: Directories changing their side [ Pertti Kosunen
>Re: Find obsolete packages without u [ Fredrik Jonson <
> fred...@jonson.org> ]
> Re: Directories changing their side [ Ric Moore
> ]
> problem with corrupted root password [ Comer Duncan <
> comer.dun...@gmail.co ]
> Re: problem with corrupted root pass [ Rob Owens ]
> Re: Have I been hacked? [ Brian ]
> Re: Have I been hacked? [ Brian ]
> Re: Have I been hacked? [ John Hasler
> ]
> Re: problem with corrupted root pass [ Gary Dale
> ]
> Re: Have I been hacked? [ Bob Proulx ]
> Re: Disable server so it does not st [ Bob Proulx ]
> Re: problem with corrupted root pass [ Bob Proulx ]
>
> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 09:25:28 -0500
> From: The Wanderer
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Directories changing their side when copied!
> Message-ID: <54b67c58.5090...@fastmail.fm>
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> On 01/14/2015 at 09:16 AM, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>
> > Hi all.
> >=20
> > I realized that the same directory, once copied onto vfat pendrive
> > with `cp' or also `rsync', have a size (detected with `du') that
> > doesn't match with the source.
> >=20
> > Please help.
>
> This is probably because du reports "size on disk" - that is, the amount
> by which the available space on the disk would be increased if the file
> weren't present - rather than the actual number of bytes in the file,
> and the difference between those two numbers will vary depending on what
> filesystem the file is sitting on.
>
> Specifically, FAT-based filesystems have different overhead from EXT*
> filesystems, which are probably what a modern Debian system is using by
> default. Thus, since du reports "total size including filesystem
> overhead", the space consumed by a file on a FAT FS will likely be
> different from the space consumed by that file on an EXT FS.
>
> The principle underlying this has been reported by Windows at least as
> far back as Windows 95. If you right-click on a file in the Windows
> file-manager program (Windows Explorer) and choose Properties, the
> resulting dialog will give you two different file-size values; I believe
> they're labeled "size in bytes" and "size on disk". The latter is what
> du reports, and is what differs depending on what filesystem the file is
> sitting on.
>
> --=20
>The Wanderer hopes that this is less confusing to read than it felt
> like when he was writing it
>
> The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
> persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
> progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
>
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