Strange Files/Directories
James Alexander Cook
james.cook at utoronto.ca
Thu May 26 18:42:21 PDT 2005
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 at utoronto.ca
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