Messed up EVERYTHING!!!

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I don’t know how I did it, but I messed up EVERYTHING! I messed up my flash drives so bad that I can’t even edit my permissions even as root on other distros!!! I can’t even copy files even though it says I’m the owner! I tried formating my flash drives to FAT32 then back to EXT3 but I still have the permission problems. When I change the permissions, I press OK but when I go back in the Permissions Tab, nothing has changed! I formated my drives, even my system, and I even tried them on other distros and versions (Slax, openSuSE Factory, openSuSE 11.1 Beta 4), and I still have this problem! They work fine when using them on Mac OS X or Windows XP… What Can I do?

Other Problem, I have trouble with permissions on my OS (openSuSE 11.0 running Factory Desktop). When I press on the garbage can ex., it asks me the root password to access Dolphin! It seems like my Plasma is running in superuser mode! Same thing happens when I try to open a folder in Folder View!!! Help!!! I’m deseperate! It’s the 2nd time I reinstall openSuSE 11.0 (first time was for the flash drive problem but it didn’t fix it!) in a month but I got backup of my Wii games on my hard drive so I don’t want to reinstall openSuSE!

I am going MAD!!!>::eek:>:(:eek:

P.S. Sorry if I’m not clear enough…

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Sounds like you’ve been running your system as root?
If so then your probably up sh**s creek and only have you self to blame.
If not then i apologise for being a bit crude
I suggest you try repairing with the boot DVD

Geoff

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Thats the problem! For the first time, I hadn’t login root ONCE!!! I guess I’ll have to backup my 70GB of stuff…

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You should also put your important data in its own partition, so when you have to reinstall everything that data on its separate partition doesnt get modified in any way.

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Wow… I never actually thought about doing another partition! Lol! I’ll do an EXT3 partition and move my stuff on it! Thanks…

Talking to myself Why didn’t I think about that…

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Good to hear. This comes really handy when new opensuse versions come out for example i have

/
/home
/mythtv

If I want during the installation of 11.1 keep both /home and /mythtv, but let 11.1 installation format and install to /. All I then have to do is setup fstab to mount /home and /mythtv.
But you need to know how to use the partitioner in expert mode.