File / Folders Permissions

[Jimmy Wu]

Just curious:
What is the lost+found folder used for? I'm pretty sure it's not the trash
What's the difference between Gigibyte and Gigabyte?  I've never heard of
the first one

Thanks,

Jimmy

On 8/11/07, Matthew Voss <matthew.lns1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Are you talking about Gigibytes or Gigabytes. There is a slight
> difference.
> Goo
> On 8/11/07, Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il > wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I would like to make a folder visible only to it's owner, more
> > specifically:
> >
> > I dedicated a whole ext3 partition for my music. The 'lost+fond' folder
> > was ceated and, of course, only root can get in there...
> >
> > Is there a way to make this folder show up only if I ls or browse it as
> > root?
> >
> > Also, somewhat related, I think there's a problem with creating ext3
> > partitions since the update to the new lowlatency kernel:
> >
> > This is what I've done:
> >
> > Copied the data to another partition
> > Deleted the partition (using: Gnome Partition Editor, fdisk and cfdisk -
> > same results)
> > Rebooted the machine
> > Created a new type 83 (Linux) Primary partition starting with block 1
> > and ebding with the last block - 9729 (whole size of the HDD: 80Gb)
> > Rebooted the machine
> > Formatted the new partition with 'mkfs.ext3 /ded/sdb1
> > All without errors
> > Mounted the partition
> > df -h showed 74Gb total, 180M (?!) used and 70Gb remaining...
> >
> > I had the same problem with another 80Gb HDD I recently put in the
> > computer (now I have 3 HDDs and 1 DVD-RW Drive)
> > I eventually re-formated the other HDD to RaierFS and after twice
> > rebooting, it got fixed on it's own, can say why and how...
> > I asked the list but no one answered.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks!
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