Re: Can't create folder on empty partition - suspect permission issue

2013-09-30 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 30 September 2013 17:58:19 Catherine Gramze wrote: > I suppose now somebody will remind us of the off-topic list and > suggest we take it there. ;-) Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lis

Re: Can't create folder on empty partition - suspect permission issue

2013-09-30 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 30 September 2013 16:38:04 Frank McCormick wrote: > Not compared with me :) I suspect I beat you both. Born in 1941. :-) As I said, there are plenty who are older than I am - it isn't a competition! But I still maintain that 60+ is not very old. ;-) Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Can't create folder on empty partition - suspect permission issue

2013-09-30 Thread Catherine Gramze
On Sep 30, 2013, at 11:38 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: >> Richard seems to need to believe himself to be extremely unusually old >> for the list and to have used computers for far longer than anyone >> else. >> >> He is younger than I am, and I am by no means the oldest on this list; >> so he is

Re: Can't create folder on empty partition - suspect permission issue

2013-09-30 Thread Frank McCormick
On 30/09/13 11:30 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: Richard seems to need to believe himself to be extremely unusually old for the list and to have used computers for far longer than anyone else. He is younger than I am, and I am by no means the oldest on this list; so he is probably younger than you are!

Re: Can't create folder on empty partition - suspect permission issue

2013-09-30 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 30 September 2013 15:48:35 Catherine Gramze wrote: > On Sep 30, 2013, at 10:31 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > Suspect indicator that you are decades younger than I. But I've > > been wrong before. > > I suspect not, unless you are an octogenarian at minimum. This > seems unlikely, so my

Re: Can't create folder on empty partition - suspect permission issue

2013-09-30 Thread Catherine Gramze
On Sep 30, 2013, at 10:31 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > Suspect indicator that you are decades younger than I. But I've been wrong > before. I suspect not, unless you are an octogenarian at minimum. This seems unlikely, so my best guess is that we are roughly the same age, with a distinct poss

Re: Re (2): Can't create folder on empty partition - suspect permission issue

2013-09-28 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 9:49 AM, wrote: > From: Joel Rees > Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 09:05:33 +0900 >> ... make all the users that write to it [a folder] members of the group. > > If you don't object to the question, would those users tend to be > people or projects or tasks? Good question!

Re: Can't create folder on empty partition - suspect permission issue

2013-09-28 Thread Richard Owlett
Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2013-09-28 at 09:05 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: In the meantime, synaptic and others essentially go through su or sudo and pop up a dialog asking for your root or admin password. Resp. those commands are gksu, gksudo, kdesu. Thank you for solution to immediate proble

Re: Can't create folder on empty partition - suspect permission issue

2013-09-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2013-09-28 at 09:05 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > In the meantime, synaptic and others essentially go through su or sudo > and pop up a dialog asking for your root or admin password. Resp. those commands are gksu, gksudo, kdesu. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re (2): Can't create folder on empty partition - suspect permission issue

2013-09-27 Thread peasthope
From: Joel Rees Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 09:05:33 +0900 > ... make all the users that write to it [a folder] members of the group. If you don't object to the question, would those users tend to be people or projects or tasks? Thanks,... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 1

Re: Can't create folder on empty partition - suspect permission issue

2013-09-27 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 3:22 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > I have a machine set aside for learning by experimentation. > It will have at least Squeeze *and* Wheezy installed. > I have created a multi-GB partition that I wish accessible to both. > I have done install from > [Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.5 "S

Can't create folder on empty partition - suspect permission issue

2013-09-27 Thread Richard Owlett
I have a machine set aside for learning by experimentation. It will have at least Squeeze *and* Wheezy installed. I have created a multi-GB partition that I wish accessible to both. I have done install from [Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.5 "Squeeze" - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20120512-13:45] I success