/dev/disk

Hy guys,

can somebody give me ls -l dev/disk result?
I have changed permission wrongly!

sorry for bad thread!
:slight_smile:

Thanks

Hi
Did you mean something like;


ls -la /dev/sda
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 2009-02-27 03:57 /dev/sda

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thanks…
but i think that I performed
something most dangerous…
I typed

chmod -R ugo-w /dev/disk

so recoursively I changed also the next folders :’(

What should i do to recovery forders and sublfofers originally state??

Plase help me!!

mine is like this

total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 520 2009-2-27 11:05 by-id
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 100 2009-2-27 11:04 by-label
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 220 2009-2-27 11:05 by-path
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 160 2009-2-27 11:04 by-uuid

didn’t you back up your system

are you able to login to your system

if so try to compare my post and edit the things you want…

any way i’m not a geek…
just trying to help like a little drop in a ocean

We need to know three things before we can give you better advice.

  1. What is the filesystem of the partition
  2. What is the mount point, is it special like /home?
  3. Please list the root of the mounted partition using: ls -l /path_to/mount_point

That’s ok… so

1.I have just one linux partition and it is on usb HD
its filesystem is ext3 then I have ntfs partition on same usb HD,
after that I have internal HD with Win Vista on (I must not touch it anyway)

2.mount point is default (so /media)

  1. “ls -l /media” output is:

drwxrwxrwx 1 paolo root 4096  4 feb 14:25 disk
drwxr-xr-x 2 root  root 4096 27 feb 17:17 dvd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root  root   83 28 feb 12:00 .hal-mtab
-rw------- 1 root  root    0 28 feb 12:00 .hal-mtab-lock

thank you for your interesting…:slight_smile:

It looks like /media/disk is NTFS because it is drwxrwxrwx, just a guess. It looks like /media/dvd is ext3 because it is drwxr-xr-x, another guess. I think there’s a chance they were not damaged, so let’s check. Do these commands now and post the results:

  1. ls -l /media/disk
  2. ls -l /media/dvd

drwxrwxrwx 1 paolo root 0  4 feb 00:07 $RECYCLE.BIN
drwxrwxrwx 1 paolo root 0  4 feb 14:25 System Volume Information

dvd folder is emply bcause it was created by myself

There was no damage done. You cannot chmod or chown an NTFS disk. An NTFS disk ignores chmod and chown.

wow thanks!!

As you changed /dev/disk, you should just make sure, that the four directories by-id, by-label, by-path and by-uuid are root.root 755. Everything inside of these folders are symbolic links to /dev/sdXY partitions, which are created by the Udev demon at boot time.

So are you telling me that I should type
“chmod -R 755 /dev/disk”
as root, isn’ it?

Right!

You may just settle for having a look into /dev/disk. But, as I tend to be cynical about everything unchecked, I would do chmod.
And, afterwards, start midnight commander and check, if everything is well done. :shame: