On 02-Aug-05 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?
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Alec Melling
+44 (0)114 2343612
<alec [at] amelling>co.uk>
Regardless of the outcome of Alec's saga (and I do hope it works out!)
I find myself very surprised at Ubuntu for not having a root account!
Ubuntu DOES have a root account, it is just assigned a random password
on installation which is not reported. 'sudo passwd' is all you need to
do to get access to the root account everyone knows.