[NTLUG:Discuss] How To Find Out Free Disk Space

[Brian]

Of course, you will begin to enjoy the "hassle" of changing permissions,
etc. once you go and do an "rm *" as root on a directory you wish you
hadn't.   

I think it happens once to everyone, but only once for the smart folks.

  --Brian

jv wrote:
> 
> Actually, I'm always logging in as root.  I know that's normally a security
> risk but I'm the only one using this machine.  Also, I don't want to go
> through the hassle of changing all the permissions on all the apps that I
> use.
> 
> Jaime Villela
> jvillela at airmail.net
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Hugh Brown <hbrown at byu.edu>
> To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 10:28 AM
> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] How To Find Out Free Disk Space
> 
> > The problem probably stems from the fact that Fat partitions don't know
> > about ownership/permissions.  So, if you can get it to work as root but
> > not as a regular user that will indicate the permissions issue (i.e.
> > XCDroast can't write to the Fat partition).  If that is the case then
> > changing the permissions with which the partition is mounted will fix
> > that (man fstab and man mount).
> >
> > FWIW
> > Hugh
> >
> >
> > > jv wrote:
> > >
> > > I finally was able to compile SCSI emulation into my kernel (thank you
> > > Maximum Linux!) and I can now start XCDroast without errors.  The
> > > problem is that when I tried to burn an audio CD it told me I didn't
> > > have enough disk space (I specified the 2 GB Win98 partition as the
> > > cache location).  Does anyone know what may be causing this?  Also,
> > > how can I tell how much free space I have left?  Running KDE on
> > > OpenLinux 2.3.
> > >
> > >
> > > Jaime Villela
> > > jvillela at airmail.net
> >
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