Could you please post to here output of a "mount" command started in your Debian konsole/terminal and output of "echo $LFS"?
2014/1/11 William Darryl Jackson <wm.djack...@comcast.net>: > I never answered your question: after doing the export LFS=/mnt/lfs; ls > -ld $LFS/sources says directory not found, from root. > > I added a label to the 'partition' and now I can view the folders from > my file manager... but still not accessible in terminal mode. > > Thanks > > William > > On 01/11/2014 01:50 PM, William Darryl Jackson wrote: >> On 01/11/2014 01:24 PM, Pierre Labastie wrote: >>> Le 11/01/2014 16:33, William Darryl Jackson a écrit : >>> >>>> Now I find-out that g++ is not on my system, and thus c++. I install the >>>> program and decide to remove the ../gcc-build folder to reconfigure gcc >>>> from that point forward. I have switched back to the $lfs user but when I: >>>> >>>> mkdir -v ../gcc-build >>>> >>>> I find that I now do not have permission; "permission denied". I checked >>>> the folder permissions - the owner is lfs, but the group is root. If I >>>> am the owner, why no permission? This is what got me turned around >>>> previously. This time I thought I would ask, why this occurs. Before I >>>> start making changes. Yes, I am doing an 'echo $LFS', regularly. >>>> >>> What is the exact output of "ls -ld $LFS/sources"? I have: >>> >>> drwxrwxrwt 5 root root 36864 janv. 5 22:17 /mnt/lfs/sources >>> >>> So user lfs is not even the owner, but everybody has right to write, and >>> there >>> is the "sticky" bit (last t), which just means that a file belonging to some >>> user cannot be removed or modified by another user. >>> >>> Now, there may be other reasons. Your system may use acl (access control >>> lists), or selinux, which further restrict permissions. What is your host >>> distribution? >>> >>> regards >>> Pierre >> Good point about the write permissions. I have other problems, tho. I am >> building this to an external drive and I have mount problems. I get the >> device name as root, but the media name as user. And my files 'sources', >> 'tools' are only visible to root. >> >> I have to figure-out /etc/fstab... probably to not mount at all, and >> then do manual mount - because we have /mnt/lfs.... when ultimately, if >> I can ever be successful - grub will need to see /dev/sdb2 - which >> currently is only accessible by root. I just did a 'chown -R lsf:lsf >> /mnt/lsf.... need to put it back to root:root and try to figure-out the >> mount situation. >> >> My build is Debian. I am interested in LFS because of all the craziness >> (lack of control). >> >> Thanks, >> >> William > > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
