Got it, so the terminal and your developer Crouton VM is sandboxed within the main OS?
I meant to fsck with a regular Linux installation, not with ChromeOS, in order to rule out any logical FS error. On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 10:17 AM Paul Boniol <[email protected]> wrote: > It still mounts currently on my Chromebook, I'd be disappointed if they > dropped ext4 support in the future, we'll have to see what they do. > > Crouton shows the /home/user directory has 0754 permission... I can see > the files listed in Chrome file manager, but not in Crouton. My Crouton > user is a member of the group number for the directory, so if this were > real Linux, it should still let me have access. And not surprisingly > Crouton won't let me sudo chmod the directory. > > I did get Ubuntu on the thumb drive, but then Windows recovery mode > wouldn't let me navigate, by keyboard or trackpad or touch screen, to any > of the options. The only thing I could do was hold the power button down to > get it to turn off and reboot. I think I'll just have to wait till I get > home to fix the permissions, or verify something isn't right. > > On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 2:16 AM Csaba Toth <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Wow, I didn't even know ext4 could be not supported on Chrome OS. >> There was a community push-back: >> https://www.networkworld.com/article/931460/chromeos-team-listens-to-linux-community-brings-back-ext2-3-4.html >> Was the push-back successful? I sold my ChromeBook so I cannot test it. >> If it's not supported then it'd be weird if it could be mounted at all. >> >> On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 10:55 PM Paul Boniol <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Thanks for all the replies! If I was home, this would have been a few >>> minutes to check/verify. However I'm out of town, and have a Microsoft >>> Surface Windows machine from work, and a Chromebook (and today I was >>> babysitting my 1 yo toddler granddaughter so progress has been >>> excruciatingly slow). I'm trying to create a bootable USB drive on Windows >>> now, but now that's throwing an error when it gets 20% in. Fun times. >>> >>> I don't ever remember setting up any ACL's for that directory... >>> Whenever I looked at them in the past I thought they'd be a headache and >>> abandoned the idea. It is a /home/user/ directory that I backed up, have >>> chmod commands in the script, had verified working months ago, but >>> foolishly assumed everything would still be working now... Once I can get >>> to it as root, I can verify perms an chown --recursive too. >>> >>> Ugh! I hadn't seen ChromeOS decided to deprecate ext4 support. *sigh* >>> >>> Hopefully I'll have positive news soon... Of course I'm going back home >>> this weekend. I can just access the files directly from the server once I'm >>> back >>> >>> ---Paul. >>> >>> On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 11:40 PM Dan Bacus <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Paul, >>>> >>>> I hate to even ask because they are the bane of my existence, but >>>> have you checked ACLs just in case they are denying access somehow? >>>> Especially at a directory level? (Lord, but I hate those sneaky little >>>> buggers...) >>>> >>>> Has a user been defined to match the UID of the file owner from the >>>> source system? If not, maybe "chown -R 0:0 /mount/point" to get everything >>>> owned by root, and a group of root, at least? I claim to know absolutely >>>> nothing about Chrome OS, so I have no idea how it deals with file access >>>> when ownership of a file can't be traced back to a valid user name. >>>> >>>> Less likely to be an issue, but have you done a "ls -ld >>>> /mount/point" to see permissions on the mounted filesystem's mount point? >>>> Back when I taught the troubleshooting class for Sun Microsystems, one of >>>> the problems we gave students was doing "chmod 0000 /", resulting in only >>>> the root user being able to log in. No other non-root users could log into >>>> the system. Troubleshooting as root, students would check perms on /etc, >>>> /home, /usr, /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, and the like; but only rarely would >>>> someone think to do "ls -ld /" to look at permissions there without a >>>> little nudge from the old instructor. If you can't read / - well then you >>>> can't read anything anywhere below it either... >>>> >>>> I'm sorry that I could not be of any more help. Best of luck to you! >>>> >>>> Dan >>>> >>>> On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 11:35 PM Paul Boniol <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> So... I've got an external drive I used to copy files from my Linux >>>>> computer. The partition is ext4. >>>>> >>>>> Some directories I can access on the Chromebook, but others I can't. >>>>> >>>>> I tried changing all the directory permissions to 0777 and all the >>>>> file permissions to 0666 on the problematic directories/files, but I am >>>>> still getting "Your file couldn’t be accessedIt may have been moved, >>>>> edited, or deleted. >>>>> ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND" >>>>> >>>>> Everything I've found online points to not being able to mount the >>>>> whole partition. But it is mounting, and other directories (which were >>>>> close if not identical permissions) I can read just fine. >>>>> >>>>> I know Chrome OS is a bit out of scope, but hoping someone has some >>>>> idea what else may be wrong. >>>>> >>>>> ---Paul. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>> Groups "NLUG" group. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en >>>>> >>>>> --- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>> Groups "NLUG" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CAL9PgS0ESWtqEe4CVqowEAVzgn-2UEwfpVLfXXbtjNXcAmCXaQ%40mail.gmail.com >>>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CAL9PgS0ESWtqEe4CVqowEAVzgn-2UEwfpVLfXXbtjNXcAmCXaQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>>> . >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "NLUG" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> [email protected] >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en >>>> >>>> --- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "NLUG" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CAEH-QC9XAq5aCvi_XZu%2BZ9yRuB43AE02ygMzdydOP-6wtcUNYQ%40mail.gmail.com >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CAEH-QC9XAq5aCvi_XZu%2BZ9yRuB43AE02ygMzdydOP-6wtcUNYQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>> . >>>> >>> -- >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "NLUG" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected] >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en >>> >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "NLUG" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CAL9PgS1oQgcJ-NRwMEsWSwcfi%2BB7K_SYn4LBkhM2Ws8BQkg1Xg%40mail.gmail.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CAL9PgS1oQgcJ-NRwMEsWSwcfi%2BB7K_SYn4LBkhM2Ws8BQkg1Xg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CA%2BKhHx%2BMKn0miyEc3sGq10et78FM3Z8rrmqveF6yzn4qy6PKnA%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CA%2BKhHx%2BMKn0miyEc3sGq10et78FM3Z8rrmqveF6yzn4qy6PKnA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CAL9PgS1bxyw3Z-eUBrJH%2BLKEVC4e35bUDPpenp5Syj39yhBssw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CAL9PgS1bxyw3Z-eUBrJH%2BLKEVC4e35bUDPpenp5Syj39yhBssw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. 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