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Thanks for replying to Joshua's issue. I'll add an FAQ entry when I get a chance. It's on my todo list :)
Er... nearly got there.

Before coming here I had mounted my hda5 { mandrake installed /home directory } and cd'ed into my /home directory only to discover that I cannot see anything in there.

I tried the GUI way mentioned here with the same result and from the cli changed permissions on the /home directory to 660.

Still cannot see anything,  # ls just returns me to the prompt ( sudo su ) having not printf anything even using the # ls -al option.

Any ideas ?  ???
You can't see the files even as root?  That's very odd.

Where did you mount hda5?  When you say "/home" do you mean "/home" or "/mnt/hda5/home"?

If you have a /home directory in use by Mandr* you should be careful setting permissions in a different system or you risk fowling things up in Mandr*.  Directory permissions should be at least 700.  Execute (7) for directories means you can enter the directory.  If you chmod 660, then not even the owner can view its contents (unless the owner is root).

The first thing i thought was that you have a different user id on each of your systems.  The result of this is a user on one system not having access to the home directory on the other system.  One way to change this is to chown the mandr* home and its contents, making sure directories are 777.  I don't recommend doing this, though, for privacy and security reasons.  A safer option is to modify the user and group IDs of each user to match.  I've done this with the 3 linux systems on my box, and it works well.  Three users with UID 1001 and GID 50.  This basically gives you the same ID on all linux boxes, effectively being the same user with permissions to all the same directories.
Hmm.... Me not being clear enough I think.

Basically, I may wish to use DSL as a Rescue option sometime, etc.

My problem is that I can mount /dev/hda5 and cd to the mount directory [ /mnt/hda5 ] and cd one further to the "home" directory but can go no further.

Now here is the part that has me confused. hda5 is the 'home' directory / partition on /dev/hda5 ~ so how come I get to see a 'home' directory at all ? Mounting it to /mnt/hda5 ought to mean that you would read /mnt/hda5 as you would when reading the /home directory normally ????? { In other words = take /mnt/hda5 to read as  /home.}

I believe this is where things are breaking down as the 'home' directory is already mounted.

I took note of your 'permissions' warnings and will be damn carefully from now on as I wish to 'fix' things properly now and not look to re-installing anymore. Things this time round seemed to have "corrected" in the transition OK as I'm sending this email from within the mdk installation I tried DSL on.

original here.