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Changing permissions with LiveCD
Hi all!
I am new to Linux... I searched the forum looking for an answer to my question, but there is something I don't understand.
I'm using the Knoppix 3.9 LiveCD.
I want to change the permissions in order to be able write on my HD.
In the shell, I type su root (it seemed to be no root pwd) , so I get the root access...
After obtained root access and gone in the /mnt directory I see this:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Sep 9 13:05 auto
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Sep 9 12:54 cdrom -> /mnt/auto/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Sep 9 12:54 floppy -> /mnt/auto/floppy
dr-xr-xr-x 1 knoppix knoppix 8192 Sep 9 06:46 hda1
so, the owner of the HD is "knoppix" user. I tryed to change the ownership,
root@1[mnt]# chown root hda1
but I have this message:
chown: changing ownership of `hda1': Read-only file system
I obtain the same message also with chmod.
...so my question is: if I am root user, shouldn't I have full-access on the system? Shouldn't I do evereything I want?
The hda1 dir should be read-only just for the knoppix user and group, shouldn't it?!
Thanks for all the answers you would give me!!
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You are going at it completely wrong.
There are 2 ways I have made changes to write to the hard disk (do not try to write to NTFS partitions, you will destroy the partition).
- 1) At a command promp, use the mount command to remount the partition as read/write. See man mount for details.
2) From the desktop and the GUI: Right click on the partition icon. Select the actions ... sub-menu. Make the partition writeable.
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