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Offline gezza

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VB+mylivecd
« on: March 10, 2011, 10:24:37 PM »
Hi to all,
I am running VB4.0.4 on PCLinuxOS2010.12.
VB is running PCLinuxOS2010.12.
The drives in VB are small --8GB for root and 3Gb for /home.
Since all that this system is doing is picking up email.
Nothing else. The idea is that I only need to move the .vdi file to another machine to get it working again, then once I am home again move it back to its original position.
Now with a total size of 11GB I am trying to mylivecd/image to the host drive with a lot of space on it 2-300GB. The host drive is mounted via NFS or SMB.
All this is fine. But when I run mylivecd I get errors that it cannot change usr/group permissions on the host machine.
Now I can write to the host, but I also cannot change permissions of a file.
But since mylivecd runs as root, I would expect it to be able to do all that was necessary.
Your thoughts on this problem will be greatfully received
Gezza

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Re: VB+mylivecd
« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2011, 10:49:54 AM »
Can't remember if SMB support changing permissions (it might be a config option)...for NFS, you may have no_root_squash set, which, IIRC, also blocks root permissions...

You may need to do a little Googling to confirm/clarify...I don't have the specifics in front of me, at the moment...