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Re: OS File Permission issue (chown -R root.root ../)



On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 12:17:24AM +0000, s. keeling wrote:
> Simon <greminn@gmail.com>:
> >  OK.. So i was in my /root/ directory and put just one too many "."s in
> 
> By "/root/", do you mean root's $HOME ("~root"), or do you mean root
> of the filesystem, "/"?

That shouldn't matter: The parent directory for / is / :-)

    # cd /
    # ls -lid ..
    2 drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 1024 2007-05-16 21:42 ..
    # cd /root
    2 drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 1024 2007-05-16 21:42 ..
    # ls -lid ..

Same inode ...

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