Thanks for the reply Steve,<br><br><span class="q"><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/19/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steven Rogers</b> <<a href="mailto:srogers1@austin.rr.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
srogers1@austin.rr.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>On Nov 19, 2006, at 5:30 AM, Brian Durant wrote:<br><br>> Fink Commander crashed and seems to have taken my whole OS X system<br>> down.<br><br>Sounds more like you had a hardware problem, and the program you<br>
happened to be running at the time was Fink Commander.</blockquote></span><div><br>Could be. I didn't have any symptoms earlier, as far as I know, but I am not an expert.<br></div><span class="q"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>For future reference, always run Disk Warrior first. Disk Utility can<br>putz things up so that they can't be repaired by Disk Warrior.</blockquote></span><div><br>Yes, I have learned my lesson.
<br></div><span class="q"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> when I get to my user profile, all of the folders are locked,
<br>> except "bookmarks" and "desktop". Anyone know how I gain access to
<br>> these?<br><br>you might be able to copy them with sudo cp -R, as in: sudo cp -R<br>your-user-dir backup-partition</blockquote><div><br></div></span>sudo cp -R "user-dir" /mnt/osx2 returns:<br><br>cp: cannot create directory `/mnt/osx2/"user-dir"': Read-only file system
<span class="q"><br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">If that doesn't work, once you've given up on recovering the disk,<br>
try changing the ownership of your whole user directory structure to
<br>your Xubuntu user using chown -R. Then you should be able to do<br>anything with it.</blockquote></span><div><br>I have tried 'chown -R /mnt/osx2' (assuming that /mnt/osx2 is read only. The result was:<br><br>"chown: missing operand after `/mnt/osx2'
<br>Try `chown --help' for more information."<br><br>/mnt/osx2 is
/dev/sdc12 a large partition (but seperate - /dev/sdc12) that is on the
same Firewire drive that I have installed an OS X system - where I can
run DiskWarrior from
<br><br>Any ideas?<br></div><br>Cheers,