coffee's questions

I have an Ubuntu VM with 3 partitions. One is the main partition, one is a small swap-space partition, and the last is a 3rd partition with 20 GB of storage space.

I imagined these 3 would be separated into 3 .vmdk files, so it would be a nice modular file format. However, I go look and I have 22 .vmdk files! What are all of these? And is there any files that separate the 3 partitions? For example, if I keep backups of my VM and want to revert to a months old version, but keep my current 3rd storage partition, is there a single file with this that I can keep?

I have a partition mounted with mount -t ext3 /dev/sda3 /foo.

Each time I reboot, I need to remount. How can I keep this mounted after every reboot?

I have a partition mounted from /dev/sda3 to /foo. It appears that it is not writable. I cannot change this with "chmod /foo 777", so how I can do this?

I have an issue where users are trying to log in to their perforce account using p4 (not p4v), but it seems to start at a default account without permissions. When they try to logout with p4 logout, they get "Access for user "foo" has not been enabled by 'p4 protect'".

What is the standard way of logging out and logging in via p4?