-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2006-09-28 at 09:22 +0530, Duff Mckagan wrote:
Wait, hold on! If by "root" you mean "/", then no, you can not. If you mean the root of something mounted in /mnt/data (for instance), then yes, you can.
What exactly do you mean by that??
That you can't change the permissions of the root directory, ie, "/". Or that's what I thought, but James Watkins proved me wrong.
I forgot to tell you guys something that makes my point...
I also have Slackware installed on this very same system. But it never exhibited a problem with the inability to create a new Directory/ File.
The command entered to change the permissions on the mounted partition was the same everywhere.
#chmod -R 777 /mnt/data
Remember, just in case, that the partition should be mounted at that time. Also (I prefer letters to octal mode) remember that directories must have the "x" permission. I don't remember what "7" means, my octal math neurone is sleeping yet. :-)
After this, be it an arbitrary user or whoever...the user was able to write and read into this mounted XFS partition.
Also, this partition is there in fstab and it automatically mounts at boot. The options are "default" .
Try the same changes as user with command line. If you can, but Konqueror can't, it is a bug. Or it needs to reload the tree to see changes.
But as it turns out, the problem is only there in SuSE.
A bug..maybe??
Dunno. As I said, I almost don't use konqueror. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFG53UtTMYHG2NR9URAnw/AJsG91ekNy5nSQDYGmmmNbxq5zAqjACghFQQ 9yjhsex6Csy1s6gPESN/bwI= =oED6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----