Format, help please?

[iNULL]

Hi. In Suse 10.1 I run Yast>System>Partitioner. Then partition my drive 'reiser' then I open it in konqueror and it says access denied? And then I chmod 777 it and now I can open, drop and drag folders and files. I cannot create new folders by right clicking> new folder. I can't put new files there either. (Its grayed out) Is this my fault? Can you help me please?

[smolloy]

Hi. In Suse 10.1 I run Yast>System>Partitioner. Then partition my drive 'reiser' then I open it in konqueror and it says access denied? And then I chmod 777 it and now I can open, drop and drag folders and files. I cannot create new folders by right clicking> new folder. I can't put new files there either. (Its grayed out) Is this my fault? Can you help me please?

Type "mount" at the command line and post the output here.

[iNULL]

/dev/hda6 on / type reiserfs (rw,acl,user_xattr)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5)
/dev/hda7 on /home type reiserfs (rw,acl,user_xattr)
/dev/hda1 on /windows/C type ntfs (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,gid=100,umask=0002,nls=utf
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
/dev/hdb1 on /stuff type reiserfs (rw)


I've been trying all sorts of stuff.. still not working. Thank you for posting though =)

[smolloy]

OK, thanks for sending that. I asked for the wrong thing though -- I should have asked you to post the contents of /etc/fstab

less /etc/fstab

Apologies!

[iNULL]

/dev/hda6 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hda7 /home reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/hda1 /windows/C ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /stuff reiserfs user,acl,user_xattr 1 2

Its still not working, but I can live for right now. Thanks for helping me out

[smolloy]

Thanks. I take it that you are having problems with "/stuff"?? Assuming it is, use "cd" to that folder, and then make a new file there,

cd /stuff
touch testfile

Tell us what happens when you do that.

[iNULL]

linux-s1ou:/stuff # touch new_file
linux-s1ou:/stuff # dir
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2006-12-08 17:11 new_file


As root only the others get permission denied..

As root in kde I cannot create new files or folders, but if I do the copy by select with the mouse thingy, I can use 'paste contents' as a new file and it works o_o.

Thanks for your continual help.

[smolloy]

No probs

It looks like the directory is owned by root, which means that no one else will have the privileges required to write to it. As root type (changing "inull" for whatever your username is),

chown -R inull:users /stuff

Now go back to being a regular user, and type this to make sure the change worked,

ls -l /

(Note that those are letter "l"'s, not the number one!). Instead of "root:root", it should say "inull:users" beside "stuff", which means that the directory is owned by "inull" and the group "users". Now everyone should be able to write to it. Test this by doing this as a regular user,

touch /stuff/another_testfile

Did that work?

By the way, it's normally considered bad to log into KDE as root, as there may be security problems. Most people (including me) recommend that you log in as a regular user, and then use the command "su -" to give yourself root permissions on the command line.

[iNULL]

Never mind that, it seems to have worked. hang on though.

drwxr-xr-x 4 iNULL users 136 2006-12-08 17:14 stuff


And, by the way I only logged into root ever to check create new file in konqueror.. which I still can't even do as root
Using touch worked as normal user.

[smolloy]

Apologies, I screwed up the instructions, and forgot to include the name of the directory we want to change the ownership of. I've editted my previous post to give the right command.

Sorry about making that mistake.