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#1 2009-02-09 16:34:57

future stir-fry
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[SOLVED] Home directory permissions error

I have a netbook with a small SSD and I recently decided to switch the home partition to a 16gb SD card that I permanently leave plugged in. So I tar'd my home directory and transferred it to external storage, mounted the SD card as /home and untar'd /home to the card. Now I am unable to write to my own /home directory as a user. I did a chown -R, made sure my user's home partition was set correctly, but it is still not writing.

Are there any other steps I can take? I can't boot into KDE now because I am unable to write to /home (even though permissions say I can).

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#2 2009-02-09 17:13:57

kaola_linux
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Re: [SOLVED] Home directory permissions error

You could try booting to arch installer and do chown there...:)


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#3 2009-02-09 19:49:07

future stir-fry
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Re: [SOLVED] Home directory permissions error

Ugh viewing web pages in links is so ghetto.

Is the arch installer located in my hdd installation (and where)? I don't have an external cd drive for this netbook.

Thanks for your help.

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#4 2009-02-09 20:17:44

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Re: [SOLVED] Home directory permissions error

Is the media mounted in a way that users can write to it?


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#5 2009-02-09 20:35:01

kaola_linux
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Re: [SOLVED] Home directory permissions error

You could try putting the arch installer on the usb device...

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ins … _USB_stick

I'm using a flash drive to install arch on my netbook...:)


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#6 2009-02-09 20:42:34

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Re: [SOLVED] Home directory permissions error

see if the folder has owner your username. if not chown -R your_username:users /home/your_username
next type use -p options from tar, when creating and extracting arhive


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#7 2009-02-09 21:46:08

future stir-fry
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Re: [SOLVED] Home directory permissions error

wonder wrote:

see if the folder has owner your username. if not chown -R your_username:users /home/your_username
next type use -p options from tar, when creating and extracting arhive

Already did this, no go (in OP).

kaola_linux wrote:

You could try putting the arch installer on the usb device...

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ins … _USB_stick

I'm using a flash drive to install arch on my netbook...:)

Was afraid that I'd have to dl this. I used the usb install too, but don't have it handy.

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