Re: tlug: Scsi devices

["Eric S. Standlee" <fwiw3980@example.com>]

I don't know your distribution, but you should have fdisk.  Did you try to
run it as a regular user or the super user (root)?

Eric S. Standlee
Kashihara City, Nara Prefecture, Japan
e-w.standlee@example.com
fwiw3980@example.com <default>

On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, in tlug-digest Darren wrote:


> Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 11:32:18
> From: Darren Cook <darren@example.com>
> Subject: Re: tlug: Scsi devices
> 
> I came back to this from a week or two ago.
> 
> [Jim Tittsler wrote:]
> >... you would have wanted 'mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/mo'  ('fdisk /dev/sda'
> >would give you a hint here.)
> 
> The mount command didn't work (same error about it not being a block
> device). Dmytro Kovalev also suggested fdisk -l, which will tell me all my
> partitions. However it seems fdisk is not installed on my machine.
> 
> This reminds me of when I was asking about libglide. Is there a good way to
> find out which package I need to install to get a certain library or
> utility? I was thinking of something like a web page, maybe with a search
> function.
> 
> 
> While on the mount theme, I've a vfat partition mounted as "/share". It is
> owned by root, and only the owner can write. I tried:
>   #umount /share
>   #chmod og+w /share     (ls -l confirms this worked)
>   #mount /share
> 
> Now it is slightly different - group can write, but still not other users.
> It is "user,rw,auto" in /etc/fstab. Are permissions for mounted directories
> controlled somewhere else?
> 
> Darren
> 
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