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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > My partner reports that he cannot save a file
> > while working in BL2 as 'user'.
>
> Probably a permission problem.  Make sure 'user'
> is the owner of /home/user and all the subdirectories.
> If not, login as root and do this:
> ------------------------
> chown -R user /home/user
> ------------------------

Was 'user' intended to be a template for making other users, rather than 
to be used as 'user'?   If you ever redo BL2 could you put some note in 
passwd about chown being needed?  Or set things up so user already has 
permission to write to the user directory?

The adduser (useradd?) program seems to automatically do chown.  When we 
added another user with it, it could write files to disk.  I then modified 
passwd to log in without a password for that user.

Would we need to add 'login' binary to BL3 to be user?  You probably 
explained this before.


> > cat /dev/ram0 > /tmp/ramdisk.
> > I had only the ram0 and ram1 mounted and the contents
> > of ram0 were smaller
>
> The perceived contents is irrelevant.  cat /dev/ram0
> gives you the entire 4mb (including garbage bytes).

df showed that the number of bytes on /dev/ram0 was less than the free 
bytes on ram1.  So it should have fit, I would think.  Something like 3600 
vs 4000 free.

> > than ram1 but it filled ram1 and ran out of space.
> > ram1 is mounted on /tmp automatically
>
> So you were trying to put 4mb of data on a filesystem
> with less than 4mb of available space.  Even a virgin
> 4mb ramdisk is unable to store a full 4mb (because of
> filesystem overhead).
Less than 4M on /tmp which had 4MB free.  4027 or similar.  A small 
fraction of /tmp was not free.

I will try this again some time with BL2 ramdisk.

> Cheers,
> Steven
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