[wellylug] Re: e2fsck problems

[teejay1203 <teejay1203@hotmail.com>]

Damon

I have some files that are only accesible when signed on as root, as 
I didn't want to put them in /usr/local/share, and because I told my 
ex partner my user details (yeah, shoulda set them up on linux.. but 
that was a different time and place).

The files are a couple of letters, and some comma seperated value 
files that contain some details of an organisation I work part time 
for (financial accounts etc) that I didn't want her to read, so I 
stuck it on /linux/misc for root, and now that we are coming up to 
the end of Financial Year, I need to get the details ready.

Any ideas?

Tim
--- In wellylug at yahoogroups.com, Damon Lynch <damon at d...> wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 19:22, teejay1203  wrote:
> > Have tried using rescue to sort out this problem. I can mount 
the 
> > linux partitions, and am trying to copy some information either 
onto 
> > the Win XP partition or to floppy, only to find that I cannot 
copy 
> > the files to either a XP partition or a floppy (seem to be 
mounted 
> > read only).
> 
> you cannot write to NTFS partitions (well you can but it is 
considered
> experimental i.e. dangerous).
> > 
> > Does anyone know how I can pull out about 3m of file that is 
stored 
> > in a directory under / so that I can reinstall MDK 9 Linux?
> 
> What are you trying to copy from / ?  Normally files in here are
> considered wipe-able.   /home is of course the very interesting 
stuff. 
> Is /home in a different partition?  If so, you may be able to 
simply
> format / and start again, while keeping /home unformatted.
> 
> Damon
> 
> > 
> > Thanks
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