Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 21:42:18 -0400 From: James Alexander Cook <james.cook@utoronto.ca> To: jbw <jbwalters@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange Files/Directories Message-ID: <20050527014218.GA7725@angel.falsifian.afraid.org> In-Reply-To: <c370ad0d050526170956cba116@mail.gmail.com> References: <c370ad0d050526170956cba116@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 08:09:12PM -0400, jbw wrote: > I backed up a few DVDs to my harddrive using dvdbackup. However I cannot > However I cannot cd into the directories that were created to view the > files as a normal user or as root. I can do an ls -lR and it will > show me all of the files in the directories. I can change the > permissions on the directories using chmod. I am the owner of the > files. du -h shows the amount of space the files are taking up. But I > cannot cd, mv, cp or do anything else to the directories even as root. > > Anyone have any ideas on what the problem is? > > thanks > > -jbw Do you have execute permission on the directories? Try "chmod 700 dir" where dir is the directory you want to enter. - James Cook james.cook@utoronto.ca
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