[Wolves] SuSE and more odd stuff...

[Peter Cannon]

On Friday 04 February 2005 20:58, Kevanf1 wrote:

> > I think you may have issues with the Win partition, I
> > think Peter mentioned this. I have a clean Linux
> > machine so that might explain some things.

Hey guys, I'm 60% sure I've seen in the Suse documentation you cannot write to 
an NTFS file system, this is not what you are trying to do is it?
Na, it cant be because you say you can write as root.

> It's fine if I happen to log in as root.  I can do whatever I want.
> It is set up exactly the same as I had it when it was SuSE 9.1  That
> worked as it should.  It's also a clean install of 9.2 rather than an
> upgrade.  But even if it was an upgrade the partition should still be
> available to all users.  users being the group that everybody is in
> and users is specified in fstab.  I have also now added 'r,w' without
> the quotes to the relevant line in fstab.  Still I cannot write to the
> partition.  However, oddly, I can copy stuff from the partition and
> then subsequently edit it in the new location.  I would have thought
> that this would not be possible?

I've lost the plot as to what your setup is? I think I had this problem too 
when I first installed 9.2 your not gonna like the solution.

You need to go to system, yast, <password>, system, partitioner. you need to 
format the relevant partition from there. Ignore the warning message if you 
set the mount point from within 'Partitioner' it will automatically write to 
fstab for you with the relevant permissions.

I had the two 13GB partions I talked about in a previous post already setup 
under 9.1 and they worked fine but refused to work under 9.2 so I used the 
above solution now things are fine (apart from the NFS mount glitch)

> I have found something very interesting in the manual.  Apparently
> there is a new 'improved' method of setting permissions.  Ah, ha, I
> think.  Perhaps it is this that is messing up the standard
> permissions?  Of course the big problem is that I have been landed
> with a massive report to write and I 'have' to concentrate on that
> over the weekend :-(((((  oh, frustration, frustration....

Not got any Bushmills, but currently enjoying a few cans of Kesteral Extra 
strength, I hope I'm OK for tomorrow I'm going round Tim's house tomorrow to 
help him out with his Suse.

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Regards
Peter Cannon
Suse Pro 9.2 & Fedora Core 3