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hack.augusto

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2008-08-28

Posts: 124

[solved]oops, permission problem /var

I just changed my partition table and moved my /var to a new partition, then with root I copyed everything from the old /var to the new partition /var, but I lost all file's permission , quite dumn, now I have some apps that can't run, should I just do "chmod -R 777 /var" ?

Last edited by hack.augusto (2008-11-24 01:25:34)

Endperform

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From: Atlanta GA, USA

Registered: 2007-09-04

Posts: 94

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Re: [solved]oops, permission problem /var

It sounds like you've probably already killed your old var.  If not, you can always try the copy again, doing this:

From the /oldvar directory:

cp -p -r * /var

-p tells cp to maintain the permissions and ownership.  If not, then your chmod should work ok, but you might see pacman complain about the permissions on /var.

hack.augusto

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2008-08-28

Posts: 124

Re: [solved]oops, permission problem /var

lol, it was really simple, thanks, I didn't write anything in the partition then I had all my old var files