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Hi, I am lost on doing this. I downloaded new levels for a game and it says to copy the folder to the games folder. I have the games folder on the other partition and when I try to copy, it gives me an error like "access denied" . How can I gain access to write new files to this folder. I have tried all I can think of such as SU, folder permissions and am lost. Please help.
QUOTE (robert44ht5 @ Aug 7 2007, 10:31 AM) 
I have the games folder on the other partition and when I try to copy, it gives me an error like "access denied" .
What and where is the other partition? Please post the output of
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fdisk -l
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cat /etc/fstab
Bash did not recognize fdisk.
Here is the output for the second command:
bash: fdisk: command not found
[rob@dhcppc0 ~]$ cat /etc/fstab
/dev/hdb1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hdb6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0022,users,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0022,users,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0022,iocharset=utf8,sy nc 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c ntfs umask=0022,nls=utf8,ro 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb5 swap swap defaults 0 0
[rob@dhcppc0 ~]$
hdb1 is the drive that contains the games folder I am trying to access. Thanx much for responding.
Here is the output for the second command:
bash: fdisk: command not found
[rob@dhcppc0 ~]$ cat /etc/fstab
/dev/hdb1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hdb6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0022,users,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0022,users,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0022,iocharset=utf8,sy nc 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c ntfs umask=0022,nls=utf8,ro 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb5 swap swap defaults 0 0
[rob@dhcppc0 ~]$
hdb1 is the drive that contains the games folder I am trying to access. Thanx much for responding.
QUOTE (robert44ht5 @ Aug 7 2007, 07:51 PM)
Bash did not recognize fdisk.
Try
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su
[root password]
fdisk -l
[root password]
fdisk -l
LOL... ty
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[root@dhcppc0 rob]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 15505 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 15505 117217768+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/hdb: 60.0 GB, 60022480896 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7753 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 6432 48625888+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb2 6433 7753 9986760 5 Extended
/dev/hdb5 6433 6758 2464528+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hdb6 6759 7753 7522168+ 83 Linux
[root@dhcppc0 rob]#
Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 15505 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 15505 117217768+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/hdb: 60.0 GB, 60022480896 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7753 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 6432 48625888+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb2 6433 7753 9986760 5 Extended
/dev/hdb5 6433 6758 2464528+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hdb6 6759 7753 7522168+ 83 Linux
[root@dhcppc0 rob]#
It seems as though you just need to change the permissions on the folder. If you're using KDE, paste and run this in a terminal:
Enter the root password when prompted. Navigate to the games folder and right click on it. Select Properties then the Permissions tab. You can change the User and Group ownership if you're the only user; or change the permissions for Others to modify content, as necessary. Also check the 'Apply changes to all sub-folders and their contents' option.
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kdesu 'kfmclient openProfile filemanagement'
Enter the root password when prompted. Navigate to the games folder and right click on it. Select Properties then the Permissions tab. You can change the User and Group ownership if you're the only user; or change the permissions for Others to modify content, as necessary. Also check the 'Apply changes to all sub-folders and their contents' option.
That was it! Thank you so much. You all were awesome. I will repay the debt someday when I gather enough knowledge to do so.
QUOTE (robert44ht5 @ Aug 8 2007, 02:06 AM)
That was it! Thank you so much. You all were awesome. I will repay the debt someday when I gather enough knowledge to do so.
We'll hold you to that!
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