Re: [Sheflug] How To Saga

[John Southern <john [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 02 August 2005 17:08, Alec Melling wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have done it. Using qtparted I have managed to re-format my drive to
> ext3.
>
> There is of course a problem. I am using Kubuntu which as you may or may
> not know does not have a root account. You use sudo or kdesu to get things
> done.
>
> Having used kdesu qtparted to reformat the drive, I now find the drive is
> owned by root as in root group.
>
> Question: How do I change the ownership of the drive?
>
> Chmod does not seem to have commands to do this, not that I understand the
> syntax anyway. So is there a file I can edit?

Try running the chmod command after you have started a shell as a superuser.
Open up a shell (Konsole under Kubuntu KDE) and type in

sudo -s

This will then run a shell with root privileges. You can now run the chmod 
command to change the ownership of the partition from root.

John
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