Randall R Schulz wrote:

On Wednesday 16 January 2008 14:49, Stan Goodman wrote:

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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 nothing?"

Ascertain where those volume are mounted, first:

% df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on LABEL=Root10 35895684 15595092 20300592 44% / tmpfs 1036540 0 1036540 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda1 293008588 91058060 201950528 32% /repo /dev/sdb1 20962560 11337580 9624980 55% /root93 /dev/sdd1 11962304 6421116 5541188 54% /root91 /dev/sdd2 11961344 6690496 5270848 56% /home /dev/sdd3 11961344 1242680 10718664 11% /dar

(I chose "df" instead of the more obvious "mount" simply because the output is easier to read, in my opinion.)

Even better readability is provided by df -h (-h flag is for for "human readable"): $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5 1012M 457M 504M 48% / udev 1013M 172K 1013M 1% /dev /dev/sda6 9.0G 4.8G 4.3G 53% /usr /dev/sda7 6.0G 1.2G 4.9G 19% /var /dev/sda8 10G 2.5G 7.6G 25% /opt /dev/sda11 64G 47G 17G 74% /home /dev/sda9 2.0G 749M 1.3G 37% /tmp /dev/sdb1 79G 21G 58G 26% /windows/c /dev/hda 132M 132M 0 100% /media/HP_50g $

Presumably you'll recognize which of the file system shown there are the two you're concerned with. You can then cd there, chmod or chown (-R) to your hearts content (after becoming root, of course).

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On Thursday 17 January 2008 11:02, Don Raboud wrote:

On Wednesday 16 January 2008 16:38, Randall R Schulz wrote:

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(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 can use the "column" command. I can't believe I never encountered it before.

make the output much easier to read.

Definitely.

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Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Randall R Schulz [01-17-08 15:38]:

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On Thursday 17 January 2008 11:02, Don Raboud wrote:

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On Wednesday 16 January 2008 16:38, Randall R Schulz wrote:

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(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 can use the "column" command. I can't believe I never encountered it before.

Yes, but it's so new. The man pages were authored 1993 :^)

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Randall R Schulz wrote:

On Thursday 17 January 2008 20:17, Aaron Kulkis wrote:

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Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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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 authored 1993 :^) And I believe the command originated on BSD in the 1980's.

According to the man page, it originated in the "Reno" release of 4.3BSD, so probably that's right.

And it was floating around at some places far earlier than the official release. (some the Vaxen on the Electrical Engineering school machines on the ecn.purdue.edu network always had the latest builds (within 1 month)) from Berkeley, as well as other things from CMU and MIT.

RRS

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