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« on: August 20, 2007, 11:38:02 am »
I have formatted my sl-c3200's hard drive as ext2, and moved back the files that were on it before, when it was in fat (dos?). Since then, I have trouble dealing with files as normal zaurus user, and have to do things as root. I have tried chown -R zaurus /hdd3/ but it doesn't change anything...
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« Reply #1 on: August 20, 2007, 12:10:41 pm »
try moving the files off the disk as root, then becoming a normal user and copying them back. chowning the directory to a normal user makes the directory the user's, but not the files/dirs inside of it. Copying the files back to it as a normal user should solve that issue.
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« Reply #2 on: August 20, 2007, 03:32:58 pm »
That's why he added the -R option, which does recursively make all directories/files belong to the user (unless I'm mistaken). I always do chown -R user:group, but your syntax looks fine (assuming your data is mounted at /hdd3).

You may also want to check your fstab file to see if it is mounting it read-only or something like that.
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« Reply #3 on: August 20, 2007, 07:37:39 pm »
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I have formatted my sl-c3200's hard drive as ext2, and moved back the files that were on it before, when it was in fat (dos?). Since then, I have trouble dealing with files as normal zaurus user, and have to do things as root. I have tried chown -R zaurus /hdd3/ but it doesn't change anything...
Any suggestions?
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if you have installed the tetsu kernel without also installing the associated modules, then i have observed the same behaviour. after installing the modules, all become as it should....
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« Reply #4 on: August 21, 2007, 09:27:45 am »
Thanks for your suggestions.

- I'd rather not copy all files off and on again...
- I already had the tetsu kernel modules installed.

I'll look further into the issue. What would be the normal mounting command options  to have in rc.rofilesys? I have "mount -t ext2 -o noatime /dev/${IDE1}3 /hdd3"

thanks for your help
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