Re: [PLUG] Accessing /home partition of old MandrivaLinux

2012-03-16 Thread Udayraj
> is a shell built-in and not a binary. That's why "sudo ls /some/path" > works > and "sudo cd /some/path" doesn't. > You can run the shell built-ins using sudo like this: $ sudo bash -c cd This gievs no error but the directory doesn't change for you :( Hope this helps with some other shell b

Re: [PLUG] Accessing /home partition of old MandrivaLinux from Mint12

2012-03-14 Thread Kaustubh Gadkari
> >> (I tried opening that folder with sudo.. but that did not help..) > > > > replace the angle brackets and content inside that properly, as needed. > > Wondering why opening with 'sudo' did not work. > > If the OP tried to cd with sudo, then I can see that not working - it's never worked for me.

Re: [PLUG] Accessing /home partition of old MandrivaLinux from Mint12

2012-03-14 Thread शंतनू
On 15-Mar-2012, at 12:04 AM, Arun Tomar wrote: > On 03/14/2012 11:55 PM, ColVIN wrote: >> Hi all >> >> Recently I shifted to LinuxMint12 from Mandriva 2012.2, while moving I >> formatted my / partition and kept my /home partition unformatted. >> Now, >> >> I cannot access the home folder of on

Re: [PLUG] Accessing /home partition of old MandrivaLinux from Mint12

2012-03-14 Thread Arun Tomar
On 03/14/2012 11:55 PM, ColVIN wrote: Hi all Recently I shifted to LinuxMint12 from Mandriva 2012.2, while moving I formatted my / partition and kept my /home partition unformatted. Now, I cannot access the home folder of one of the user of Mandriva from LinuxMint12. LinuxMint is assigning th

[PLUG] Accessing /home partition of old MandrivaLinux from Mint12

2012-03-14 Thread ColVIN
Hi all Recently I shifted to LinuxMint12 from Mandriva 2012.2, while moving I formatted my / partition and kept my /home partition unformatted. Now, I cannot access the home folder of one of the user of Mandriva from LinuxMint12. LinuxMint is assigning that folders ownership to GID which has no