[wellylug] Re: e2fsck problems

[Damon Lynch]

On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 19:57, teejay1203  wrote:
> 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?

is /home on a separate partition?  Could you copy them into that?  If
not, and if they fit on a floppy, you can easily mount a floppy and copy
them like that (and in fact , you should be able to to do both for
maximal safety).  Can you mount a floppy via "mount /dev/fd0
/mnt/floppy"?   

You may like to use gzip to compress them first.  Try "gzip filename"
first.

Damon

> 
> 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
> <snip></snip>
> 
> 
> 
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