New subject: Server crashes

9 Nov 2002

OK, I've got a tricky question.

I have a plain-old-vanilla hfs partition on one of my drives. For the last 
year, it's mounted *just fine* under SuSE. I've never been able to give 
anybody other than root write permissions to it, but since all I really use 
it for is storing mp3's (and the occasional Linux-MacOS file transfer), all 
anybody needs is read permissions.

About a week ago, I had a whopper of a system crash, for reasons that I still 
haven't figured out. I was forced to do a hard-reboot. Since then, nobody 
except for root has been able to access my hfs partition. Anybody else gets a 
"permission denied" message. I've tried fiddling with /etc/fstab, I've
tried 
chgrp and chown and chmod (both on the mount-point-directory and directly on 
the /dev/ object), nothing works. I'm practically tearing my beard out in 
frustration... it's probably something really obvious that's right in front 
of my face... any ideas?

-SB
-- 
"As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty,
and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life -- so I became a
scientist.  This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls."
                -- Matt Cartmill

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