On 24 December 2011 16:36, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > On Sat 24 Dec 2011 at 01:42:00 +0000, Sharon Kimble wrote: > >> Tonight at midnight my backup of my home directory failed, and on >> investigation why it couldn't make a directory i found that i didn’t >> have the right permissions. On further checking I found that the >> ownership had reverted to root:root, so I rebooted. > > Please post the output of '/sbin/fdisk /dev/sdX' for the drive.
!532 sbin/media/8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459 /dev/sdX bash: sbin/media/8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459: No such file or directory ls -l /media shows drwxr-xr-x 183 root root 12288 Dec 22 07:00 8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459 Sharon. -- A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk/taste/index.html efever = http://www.efever.blogspot.com/ efever = http://sharon04.livejournal.com/ Debian 6,0.3, Gnome 1:2.30+7, LibreOffice 3.4.4 Registered Linux user 334501 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAM9u--fLpX8TAuwhnontktmS2AM p+ac8ctqsjbsapjiw...@mail.gmail.com
