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Topic: chown in persistent home, seems to happen every boot

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mikshaw

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Posted: April 25 2008,10:59

florian: I've wondered quite a bit how that could be, and the only thing I could come up with is that some directory that is chowed (likely the mydsl directory) is on a read-only partition. I believe the error showed for me when I was testing another machine. I think I might have stored the mydsl extensions in the root partition. Can't recall for sure, but it seems like a read-only filesystem is the only thing that could prevent root from changing ownership of a local file.

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Posted: April 25 2008,18:41

Sharing your home directory with multiple users is not SOP nor is having a read-only home directory.

Trying to be accomodating to such is again going to add much complexity. Even the default permissions on /home/dsl is such that group is set to staff.

Traditional hard drive installations or hybrids (persistent home) is not really the focus of DSL. Tyring to accomodate this would mean having to know if this action is the first attempt both dynamically or upon boot.

Not sure if effort is worth the results given other pending tasks.

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Posted: April 25 2008,20:42

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nor is having a read-only home directory

It was, if I'm assuming correctly, the mydsl directory, not the home directory. It's possible that on the other machine I had dumped a few extensions on the root partition, and DSL may have tried to chown that directory. I can't recall for sure, though. I haven't seen that error on my main box, which has a writable mydsl directory.

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Posted: April 25 2008,23:22

The difference between 4.x and 3.x is the fact that mydsl needs to be writable as user. This is the result from trying to lessen the use of sudo and the requirment of copying or moving extensions as root or via a su'ed emelfm. It is also the reason that, for pendrives, the filesystem used needs to support permissions. These changes were announced back in the early 4.x series.

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Posted: April 29 2008,21:48

Silly thing....I just thought of a very easy way to keep my work files' ownerships intact. I just moved the work directory to /mnt/hda4/work and make a /home/dsl/work symlink. It's all still on the same partition and just as easy to access, but now won't get chowned =o)

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