Re: Excahnge data between NTFS and Linux partitions

2003-12-28 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 05:49:48PM +0200, Kristian Niemi wrote: > Question #1 is something I'm pondering on myself; I just assumed it's me > being stupid, although I have the same settings for my NTFS partition, > as another ext2 ... > > Question #2, in kernel 2.6 I believe you can set NTFS as w

Re: Excahnge data between NTFS and Linux partitions

2003-12-27 Thread Kristian Niemi
Question #1 is something I'm pondering on myself; I just assumed it's me being stupid, although I have the same settings for my NTFS partition, as another ext2 ... Question #2, in kernel 2.6 I believe you can set NTFS as writable, although it's experimental, and at least I don't dare to use it.

Re: Excahnge data between NTFS and Linux partitions

2003-12-27 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Andrus Moor (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I have dual booting system: XP with NTFS and Debian unstable with > ext2 file systems. > This is Acer Travelmate notebook. Network and internet connections are > not available usually. > > 1. How to allow non-root user to read XP partition ? > >

Re: Excahnge data between NTFS and Linux partitions

2003-12-27 Thread panda
Andrus Moor wrote: I have dual booting system: XP with NTFS and Debian unstable with ext2 file systems. This is Acer Travelmate notebook. Network and internet connections are not available usually. 1. How to allow non-root user to read XP partition ? I added a line to /etc/fstab : /dev/hda1 /x

Excahnge data between NTFS and Linux partitions

2003-12-27 Thread Andrus Moor
I have dual booting system: XP with NTFS and Debian unstable with ext2 file systems. This is Acer Travelmate notebook. Network and internet connections are not available usually. 1. How to allow non-root user to read XP partition ? I added a line to /etc/fstab : /dev/hda1 /xp ntfs users,uid=a

Re: initializing linux partitions after installation

2003-01-05 Thread will trillich
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 12:13:21AM -0500, jereme wrote: > I'll explain how to get /home setup, /tmp will be pretty much the > same without the need for moving over old files. > > Log your user out everywhere, X, VT's and then log in as root, don't > su -. > > First you need to know ... > You sho

Re: initializing linux partitions after installation

2003-01-04 Thread jereme
Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > now my question is: during setup and installation, i partitioned off > my hard drive into a swap partition /, /usr, /var, /tmp, and /home. i > initialized the swap and the first three of the others, but then i > stopped, and moved on to the rest of the

Re: initializing linux partitions after installation

2003-01-04 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Sat, 04 Jan 2003 01:09:42PM -0400, Dan Hunt insinuated: > On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 02:24:40 -0500 > "Nori Heikkinen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > what's weirding me out is, having created a user account for myself > > and logging in, `pwd` says i'm in /home/nori. how can this be, if i > > didn't in

Re: initializing linux partitions after installation

2003-01-04 Thread Dan Hunt
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 02:24:40 -0500 "Nori Heikkinen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what's weirding me out is, having created a user account for myself > and logging in, `pwd` says i'm in /home/nori. how can this be, if i > didn't initialize a /home partition? where on the disk am i? is this > bad?

Re: initializing linux partitions after installation

2003-01-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 07:56:36AM +, Karsten M. Self wrote: > No, but it means you're going to want to move the directory and copy its > contents to the new mountpoint once you've created it: > > $ sudo bash > # cd / > # mv home home-bak > # mount /home > # cp -pdR h

Re: initializing linux partitions after installation

2003-01-02 Thread Gerald Livingston
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 07:56:36 + "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, but it means you're going to want to move the directory and copy > its contents to the new mountpoint once you've created it: > > $ sudo bash > # cd / > # mv home home-bak > # mount /home > #

Re: initializing linux partitions after installation

2003-01-02 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Thu, 02 Jan 2003 07:56:36AM +, Karsten M. Self insinuated: > on Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 02:24:40AM -0500, Nori Heikkinen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >wrote: > > so, i did it! i installed debian from scratch, woo-hoo! it's now > > installed, but not configured, so i still have half the work ahead > >

Re: initializing linux partitions after installation

2003-01-01 Thread Elijah
I'm not sure if this would work, edit your /etc/fstab and add your partitions there: LABEL=/home/home ext3defaults1 1 LABEL=/tmp /tmpext3defaults1 1 If you're wondering where is your /home right now my guess is that you're using your root partition. Do

Re: initializing linux partitions after installation

2003-01-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 02:24:40AM -0500, Nori Heikkinen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > so, i did it! i installed debian from scratch, woo-hoo! it's now > installed, but not configured, so i still have half the work ahead of > me ... but thanks to y'all and to debian, it was much easier than i'd >

initializing linux partitions after installation

2003-01-01 Thread Nori Heikkinen
so, i did it! i installed debian from scratch, woo-hoo! it's now installed, but not configured, so i still have half the work ahead of me ... but thanks to y'all and to debian, it was much easier than i'd expected it to be. now my question is: during setup and installation, i partitioned off my

Re: accessing linux partitions from windows

2002-11-20 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Sandip" == Sandip P Deshmukh writes: Sandip> http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/ Sandip> i have tried the program. basic procedure is boot the Sandip> machine in windows and run e2fs. you can browse entire Sandip> linux partition. who cares about file permissions! S

Re: accessing linux partitions from windows

2002-11-20 Thread Chris Kenrick
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 12:44:01PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > hello all > > i do not know if this is a security issue. but this is surprising. > > there is a win9x application - e2fs that can explore linux partitions on > dual boot machines. > > here i

Re: accessing linux partitions from windows

2002-11-19 Thread Andrea Borgia
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: SPD>i do not know if this is a security issue. but this is surprising. It isn't: with physical access to your machine, anyone could boot of a cd/floppy, mount your root partition, zero out your root password and be your master from then on ;-) SPD>

Re: accessing linux partitions from windows

2002-11-19 Thread nate
Sandip P Deshmukh said: > hello all > > i do not know if this is a security issue. but this is surprising. if you have console access to the machine, security is no longer a consideration really. it is easy to boot a cd or a floppy or even reconfigure lilo(maybe grub too, havent tried) to boot to

accessing linux partitions from windows

2002-11-19 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
hello all i do not know if this is a security issue. but this is surprising. there is a win9x application - e2fs that can explore linux partitions on dual boot machines. here is the homepage http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/ i have tried the program. basic procedure is boot the machine

Re: Linux Partitions

2001-01-30 Thread kmself
on Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:46:06PM -0600, ktb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 01:42:12PM -0800, Leonard Leblanc wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > > > I am going to be running a Linux box as Firewall/DNS/WWW/FTP/POP and maybe > > some other network applications. I was wondering

Re: Linux Partitions

2001-01-29 Thread ktb
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 07:20:12PM -0500, David B. Harris wrote: > To quote ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > # I would add /var to this list. The reason being is if you run > something > # like squid and don't manage it right it will bring your system down if > # it grows too large. Maybe with todays l

Re: Linux Partitions

2001-01-29 Thread David B . Harris
To quote ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # I would add /var to this list. The reason being is if you run something # like squid and don't manage it right it will bring your system down if # it grows too large. Maybe with todays large HD's it doesn't matter as # much but I've had it happen. Log files ca

Re: Linux Partitions

2001-01-29 Thread ktb
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 05:58:57PM -0500, David B. Harris wrote: > To quote "Leonard Leblanc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > # Hello Everyone, > # > # I am going to be running a Linux box as Firewall/DNS/WWW/FTP/POP and > maybe some other network applications. I was wondering what your > suggestions woul

Re: Linux Partitions

2001-01-29 Thread David B . Harris
To quote "Leonard Leblanc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # Hello Everyone, # # I am going to be running a Linux box as Firewall/DNS/WWW/FTP/POP and maybe some other network applications. I was wondering what your suggestions would be for Partitions. I have already ready the Partition HOWTO, but still are

Re: Linux Partitions

2001-01-29 Thread ktb
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 01:42:12PM -0800, Leonard Leblanc wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I am going to be running a Linux box as Firewall/DNS/WWW/FTP/POP and maybe > some other network applications. I was wondering what your suggestions would > be for Partitions. I have already ready the Partiti

Linux Partitions

2001-01-29 Thread Leonard Leblanc
Hello Everyone,   I am going to be running a Linux box as Firewall/DNS/WWW/FTP/POP and maybe some other network applications.  I was wondering what your suggestions would be for Partitions.  I have already ready the Partition HOWTO, but still aren't quite sure what partitions would be best f

Re: Problems with Linux partitions after installing FreeBSD

1999-10-16 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
upport" activated. So your kernel "sees" the partition inside the FreeBSD slice (/dev/hda1) wich is, at large, similar ton an extended partition. Your logical partitions are shifted by an amount equal to the number of the BSD partitions inside the BSD slice. So, boot with rescue disk and do

Problems with Linux partitions after installing FreeBSD

1999-10-15 Thread Arcady Genkin
Hi all: I had a Slink install on my second machine, and I wanted to give FreeBSD a try. After I installed it into the first primary partition, I can find no way to boot into Linux. I have a boot diskette, which I figured I would use, but it isn't happening (the booter loads, prints out correctly t

Windows 98 Killing Linux Partitions?

1998-07-09 Thread Pure Energy
Hiya all I just read this artical at slashdot.org that stated that it moves the save 2 partition it rewrites the partition (if i read it correctly). They state that anything using a LILO boot WILL break. The article is at this URL:http://slashdot.org/articles/9807082141244.shtml

Re: help! NT4 destroyed my Linux partitions!

1998-06-22 Thread Alexander Gun
(in dos) safe? I don't think that this is the right way, because fdisk /mbr (in dos) onlywrites a new mbr on the first disk.   > > Any ideas?  Are there any programs for NT that will allow me to view the > > Linux partitions? If NT 4.0 has formated the new partitions, there is no way to b

Re: help! NT4 destroyed my Linux partitions!

1998-06-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Jun 22, 1998 at 03:07:42AM -0400, Paul Miller wrote: > > Yes, I did. I figured it out -- Disk Administrator renumbered all my > partitions, so I was actually trying to mount an extended partition > instead of my root partition. Hm. It's never done anything like that here. I'd be surp

RE: help! NT4 destroyed my Linux partitions!

1998-06-22 Thread Paul Miller
Yes, I did. I figured it out -- Disk Administrator renumbered all my partitions, so I was actually trying to mount an extended partition instead of my root partition. Thanks -Paul On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, Jason Rennie wrote: > > Yeah... I played with that program a little -- only to change the > >

AW: help! NT4 destroyed my Linux partitions!

1998-06-22 Thread Matthias Thyroff
Hi! Same thing happened to me. After NT did some small repairs to my primary (SCSI) harddisk, nobody could read from that disk anymore (not even NT - great software) I could boot from the SuSE distribution CDROM and fix the partition table with fdisk - because I knew where the partitions were.

Re: help! NT4 destroyed my Linux partitions!

1998-06-22 Thread oo0~Tenno Jepun~0oo
ot; and the "Debian Rescue Disk" > > and I still get the same results. I can not mount _any_ partitions that > > are on the same disk as NT. > > Sounds like you trashed your partition table when you installed NT. > > > Any ideas? Are there any programs for NT t

RE: help! NT4 destroyed my Linux partitions!

1998-06-21 Thread Jason Rennie
> Yeah... I played with that program a little -- only to change the > drive > letter of my cdrom drive. > Did you let it write a disk signiture to the partition ?? If you did the damage may not be recoverable. Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: help! NT4 destroyed my Linux partitions!

1998-06-21 Thread Paul Miller
nd the "Debian Rescue Disk" > > and I still get the same results. I can not mount _any_ partitions that > > are on the same disk as NT. > > Sounds like you trashed your partition table when you installed NT. Any way to repair it? Is fdisk /mbr (in dos) safe? &g

Re: help! NT4 destroyed my Linux partitions!

1998-06-21 Thread Kaz Kylheku
can not mount _any_ partitions that > are on the same disk as NT. Sounds like you trashed your partition table when you installed NT. > Any ideas? Are there any programs for NT that will allow me to view the > Linux partitions? In NT, there exists a program called Disk Administrator

help! NT4 destroyed my Linux partitions!

1998-06-21 Thread Paul Miller
ame results. I can not mount _any_ partitions that are on the same disk as NT. Any ideas? Are there any programs for NT that will allow me to view the Linux partitions? Thanks -Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FSDEXT2, mounting linux partitions under windows 95 read-only (was Re: Linux on top of win95)

1998-02-21 Thread John Spence
On Sat, Feb 21, 1998 at 11:46:17AM +0900, Sen Nagata wrote: > > p.s. has anyone had any luck unounting mounted linux partitions > using fsdext2? i tried what was in the included faq (/u option) > but to no avail (option is not recognized). perhaps this option > is not in versi

FSDEXT2, mounting linux partitions under windows 95 read-only (was Re: Linux on top of win95)

1998-02-21 Thread Sen Nagata
oper doesn't seem to have any plans to provide write access :-( -sen p.s. has anyone had any luck unounting mounted linux partitions using fsdext2? i tried what was in the included faq (/u option) but to no avail (option is not recognized). perhaps this option is not in version 0.16? --

Re: DOS Fdisk doesn't see Linux partitions

1997-05-12 Thread David Wright
On Sat, 10 May 1997, Ken Gaugler wrote: > Also, DOS reports that D: (the dos partition on the second drive) > as being 1.2Gigs -- that is how big the whole drive is. DOS > doesn't see the Linux partitions there at all. I know they are there, > I am running them right now as I ty

Re: DOS Fdisk doesn't see Linux partitions

1997-05-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
/ugs/mini_howto.html : :Almost everything went well. I moved the Linux partitions from the :second IDE disk to the first, then made the [original] first drive :the slave, and added a large first drive. I partitioned the first :drive (/dev/hda) into 3 DOS partitions. : :In my original configuration, t

Re: DOS Fdisk doesn't see Linux partitions

1997-05-11 Thread Ken Gaugler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 10 May, Ken Gaugler wrote: > > > > [partition problems] > > Hello! > > Sad to say I can only offer this very general advice (which you may > already have heard and followed; in that case ignore me ;-) > > Always delete and create partitions with the correspondin

DOS Fdisk doesn't see Linux partitions

1997-05-11 Thread Ken Gaugler
I recently asked for "ideas about moving Debian to another disk", and got some good suggestions. I decided to use Paul Serice's excellent procedure he has on his page at http://lac.laci.net/pweb/ugs/mini_howto.html Almost everything went well. I moved the Linux partitions from

Re: combining linux partitions

1996-11-06 Thread Igor Grobman
Vern Hamberg wrote: > > > Igor- > > You could try md (multiple disk). This makes a virtual partition out of > many. It lets you do a linear combination or a RAID 0 striping. I've just > started using it and like it quite well. The kernel has support for it, if > you compile it in. > > Cheers, >

Re: combining linux partitions

1996-11-06 Thread Vern Hamberg
artition Magic, but it refuses to >touch Linux partitions... > >Thanks for the help. >Igor >-- Igor- You could try md (multiple disk). This makes a virtual partition out of many. It lets you do a linear combination or a RAID 0 striping. I've just started using it and like it qui

Re: combining linux partitions

1996-11-06 Thread Craig Sanders
artition as /usr mkdir usr mount /dev/XXX /usr Remember to add an entry to /etc/fstab so that the /usr partition is mounted at boot time. > I have Partition Magic, but it refuses to touch Linux partitions... not surprising...it's a dos program. Craig -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

combining linux partitions

1996-11-05 Thread Igor Grobman
I've recently installed Debian distribution. I really like it, so I'd like to get rid of my old slackware install, and make the Slackware and Debian partition into one. Is there a program out there that would do it. I have Partition Magic, but it refuses to touch Linux partitions.