Hi folks, Knoppix LiveCD 4.0.2 I have a partition created on HD reserved for Knoppix LiveCD. On default the partition can be mounted both as "root" and "user". My problem is that files on the partition can only be saved as "root". Therefore as "user" after editing the files I can't save them back to the partition. Also I can't save new file on the partition. Is there any solution? I don't expect starting Knoppix as root nor "su root" on console starting application to work. TIA B.R. satimis

If you used FAT, find your user's uid and gid by running "id", and mount with "mount -o uid=1000,gid=100...", for example. Or if it's already mounted, "mount -o remount,uid=1000,gid=100 /mnt/knoppix_space". If it's a POSIX filesystem like EXT2/3, ReiserFS, XFS, etc., mount and chown everything with "chown -R username:group /mnt/knoppix_space".

Jake2, Tks for your advice. The fs of all partitions is ext2/ext3. There are 6 partitions, namely partition 1, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8 (partition 2 is swap). I haven't added user. What shall I replace for "username"? What shall I replace for "space" or just a space (pressing the keyboard to add a space)? Besides there is no entry on /etc/fstab of the partitions. satimis

If the partitions are formatted to ext2/3 then why not just create directories in each partition and assign the rights to those?

Hi 3Dave, I ran; # tar -zxpf tarball -C /mnt/partion_x to decompress the tarball on this partition reserving the original properties. satimis

You may want to try the "--same-owner" switch with tar...the file permissions might be the same but the owner and group may be different.

Hi 3Dave, I ran; # tar -jcpf tarball.tarbz2 - creating the tarball and # tar -jxpf tarball.tarbz2 - to decompress it Whether you meant adding --same-owner to them as; # tar -jcpf --same-owner tarball.tarbz2 and # tar -jxpf --same-owner tarball.tarbz2 satimis