GNOME Partition Editor - evolved into problem with chmod

[Bret Busby]

On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Nils Kassube wrote:

> 
> Bret Busby wrote:
>> However, all of the actions that seem to be supposed to be available
>> for doing that, are greyed out, in the menu's in GNOME Partition
>> Editor.
>
> You can only resize partitions that are not in use. You could start
> gparted from the LiveCD or maybe from your Debian system.
>
>
> Nils
>
>

Thank you for that.

Running gparted from the Debian installation worked, and I checked it by 
booting into Ubuntu, which was successful.

Now I just have to figure out how to make the new data partition 
accessible.

chmod (from the Debian system) seems to be designed to frustrate.

it used to be that using a syntax like
chmod 777 <target>
would make a file/directory able to be written to and read from (and 
executed) by anyone.

I know that is how the syntax used to be, because I remember a person 
(on a UNIX system) losing his account, when he accidentally entered
chmod .
, which changed his . file permissions to zero, and not even the 
sysadmin could save his account, so he had to be issued with a new account.

And, I have used the numbers for permissions in Linux, when I have 
previously had to change permissions, when FTP'ing files up to web 
sites.

Now, it seems, that doesn't work anymore, and I can't figure out how to 
make chmod work.

The current status of the partition is:
"
  ls -l /data
total 16
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 2009-04-02 17:34 lost+found
"
The Debian fstab entry (I edited the fstab file, to incorporate the 
partition, from the Debian side) is
"
/dev/hdc8       /data           ext3    defaults        0       0
"

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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