Recent content by Niftyprose

Hello guys, I will apologize in case this one makes anyone groan. I'm a long-term computer user with some systems management experience, but will confess that Linux/Unix file permissions confuse me. I have a very specific issue which I suspect indicates a basic failure of understanding. If...

Hello Technojunky, many thanks for a pragmatic response. I would have thought of the remove-the-RAID-controller trick, to which I may well have recourse before the end of this. The following isn't a call for replies but I'll share it on the off-chance that it's useful for someone. I managed to...

Hello guys, my first post in this group. I will commence by saying that, while I've done a fair bit of Linuxing, I have no experience whatsoever with RAID and I'd be grateful for any input. The first para below gives context. Please scan before addressing my specific queries (will likely save...

Nah, I tried the obvious stuff already. (Thanks, Peer, but...) I saw something similar to the IOmega setup years ago, when I was using an Asus eeePC. The builders had partitioned the 20Gb SSD drive in such a way that you couldn't repartition it so as to gain access to a 4Gb section they'd...

Hello guys, first post here in ages. I'm afraid it's not a deep, thoughtful, lucid query on our favourite OS. But it's possible that someone out there has encountered this ?manufacturer-specific issue... I'm running SparkyLinux on my laptop and the excellent (if obscure) VolksPC on a repurposed...