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From: Steve Kotsopoulos steve@ecf...
Subject: More questions..
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 09:36:21 -0400

> Is there a way to change owner from none to sys?

Vadim posted an 'su' program here last year, I saved it at
http://www.ecf.toronto.edu/plan9/info/misc/su

> The following error is strange..
> 
>    disk/kfscmd allow
>    cd /
>    mkdir mail
>    mkdir: mount device forbids creation

The root of your file server (in this case, /n/kfs) is distinct in many
ways from the root of your namespace (/).  This takes some getting used to.
Try the following instead:

     disk/kfscmd allow
     cd /n/kfs
     mkdir mail

If you then look in /, you'll find /mail

> Any pointers?

The manpages: root(3), mnt(3)