Just to clarify - can you mount the partition manually?
On 8/27/07, Chuck Hast <wchast@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 27 Aug 2007 07:37:37 -0000, Robin - Bartow FL
> <suncoastlug.mailbox@gibp.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Michael Hast evylrobot@gmail.com
> > To: slug@nks.net
> > Sent: 8/26/07 8:40 PM
> > Subject: [SLUG] reading drives...
> >
> > > Hey, all.
> > >
> > > As usual, I have decided to do things the hard way. I decided to
> upgrade
> > > from Debian Sarge to Etch a couple of weeks ago. Of course, I didn't
> read
> > > the recomended method by which to do this, but jumped in with both
> feet,
> > > shooting from the hip, like some kind of geeky, blood-raged
> cowboy. Anyway,
> > > I screwed up my install by breaking a multitude of packages, and
> decided to
> > > download and install Etch from scratch. I backed up all of my files
> to CD
> > > and DVD, and went to town. I keep most of my files on my
> "/home/shared"
> > > partition, anyway (hdb6), and thought that I could edit this partition
> back
> > > into my /etc/fstab, and not lose said files. Well, it didn't work. I
> > > actually copied my /etc/fstab file to another machine on the network,
> so
> > > that I could use it as a reference for the mount point and options,
> and
> > > after editing that partition in exactly as it had been before, I still
> > > cannot browse into it. I know that there has got to be a way to do
> this,
> > > but I'm at a loss as to where to go. Any help would be vastly
> appreciated.
> > > If it makes a difference, it's Debian 4.0, kernel 2.6.x, with KDE 3.5on a
> > > P4. Thanks!
> > >
> > > --Michael
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > In the past I had a similar problem.
> > I reloaded an OS and could not "browse" by habit.
> >
> > Where you using a auto-mount utility with Sarge?
> > If the command was in fstab but the utility was not loaded...?
> >
> > From a console can you mount hdb6...
> > as root and "ls" to see the contents?
> > how about as user?
> >
> I had a similar problem when I moved the home directory to a new HD I did
> it as a non-root user so it changed all of the permissions to those of the
> user that I used when I did the move. I had to go back in and change them
> all back to what they were supposed to be. I could see home but unless I
> was root I could not get into it.
>
>
> --
> Chuck Hast -- KP4DJT --
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> "the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going
> out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn
> and twisted metal."
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