Hi,
I have some doubt regarding the "/spare" and "/spare/lost+found"
directory in unix. Currently i am using SVR4 and i couldn't able to
figure out what these directories stands for???

This Problem arrived because i want to remove the "world writable
permission" from this directory so that an ordinary user couldn't able
to write into it.

Can anybody please tell me which kind of utilities are wrighting into
this directory???

Thanks

On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:44:26 -0700, Debu
<debasish4@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
> I have some doubt regarding the "/spare" and "/spare/lost+found"
> directory in unix. Currently i am using SVR4 and i couldn't able to
> figure out what these directories stands for???
>
> This Problem arrived because i want to remove the "world writable
> permission" from this directory so that an ordinary user couldn't able
> to write into it.
>
> Can anybody please tell me which kind of utilities are wrighting into
> this directory???
>
> Thanks
>
/lost+found is where fsck places orphan files (files whose names have
been lost). /spare is probably a mount point. Try the command "mount".
Ordinarily, you use the chmod command to change the permissions of a
directory, unless that directory is in a filesystem that does not
recognize Unix permissions (fat or ntfs); but such filesystems don't
usually have a lost+found directory.


--
I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody. It doesn't generate revenue.
-- Dave '-ddt->` Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux

On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:44:26 -0700, Debu
<debasish4@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
> I have some doubt regarding the "/spare" and "/spare/lost+found"
> directory in unix. Currently i am using SVR4 and i couldn't able to
> figure out what these directories stands for???
>
> This Problem arrived because i want to remove the "world writable
> permission" from this directory so that an ordinary user couldn't able
> to write into it.
>
> Can anybody please tell me which kind of utilities are wrighting into
> this directory???
>
> Thanks
>
/lost+found is where fsck places orphan files (files whose names have
been lost). /spare is probably a mount point. Try the command "mount".
Ordinarily, you use the chmod command to change the permissions of a
directory, unless that directory is in a filesystem that does not
recognize Unix permissions (fat or ntfs); but such filesystems don't
usually have a lost+found directory.


--
I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody. It doesn't generate revenue.
-- Dave '-ddt->` Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux