Re: how can I tell if a partition is a luks partition?

From	Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: how can I tell if a partition is a luks partition?
Followup-To	comp.os.linux.misc
Date	2012-07-31 21:55 +0200
Organization	A noiseless patient Strider
Message-ID	<jv9d7b$iar$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On Tuesday 31 July 2012 21:38, Chris F.A. Johnson conveyed the following 
to comp.os.linux.misc...

> On 2012-07-31, Todd wrote:
>
>> On 07/31/2012 10:31 AM, Bit Twister wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 10:12:56 -0700, Todd wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 07/31/2012 01:10 AM, Bit Twister wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 22:37:33 -0700, Todd wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> oops, you have to run "blkid" as root
>>>>>
>>>>> Oh no, hope my system never finds that out.
>>>>>
>>>>> [bittwister@wb ~]$ /sbin/blkid | grep sda6
>>>>> /dev/sda6: LABEL="cauldron" UUID="35f73957-91a7-439b-8aa8-1da6"
>>>>> TYPE="ext4"
>>>>
>>>> Oh, now it decides to work as a user today!  Yesterday,
>>>> I got nothing back, unless I was root.
>>>
>>> If you run "blkid" I will guess it would be broke again.  :-8
>>>
>>> And magically "/sbin/blkid" will work. :-D
>>
>> That stupid sbin directory again!  AAAAHHHHHHH
> 
>    Why is /sbin not in your PATH?

Probably because he was executing it as a non-root user, in which case 
it should indeed _not_ be in his $PATH.

-- 
= Aragorn =
(registered GNU/Linux user #223157)

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how can I tell if a partition is a luks partition? Todd <Todd@invalid.invalid> - 2012-07-30 22:20 -0700
  Re: how can I tell if a partition is a luks partition? Todd <Todd@invalid.invalid> - 2012-07-30 22:36 -0700
    Re: how can I tell if a partition is a luks partition? Todd <Todd@invalid.invalid> - 2012-07-30 22:37 -0700
      Re: how can I tell if a partition is a luks partition? Todd <Todd@invalid.invalid> - 2012-07-30 22:46 -0700
      Re: how can I tell if a partition is a luks partition? Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2012-07-31 08:10 +0000
        Re: how can I tell if a partition is a luks partition? Todd <Todd@invalid.invalid> - 2012-07-31 10:12 -0700
          Re: how can I tell if a partition is a luks partition? Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2012-07-31 17:31 +0000
            Re: how can I tell if a partition is a luks partition? Todd <Todd@invalid.invalid> - 2012-07-31 12:27 -0700
              Re: how can I tell if a partition is a luks partition? "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@gmail.com> - 2012-07-31 15:38 -0400
                Re: how can I tell if a partition is a luks partition? Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2012-07-31 21:55 +0200
                Re: how can I tell if a partition is a luks partition? "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@gmail.com> - 2012-07-31 16:03 -0400
                Re: how can I tell if a partition is a luks partition? Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2012-08-01 04:11 +0000
                Re: how can I tell if a partition is a luks partition? Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2012-08-01 09:08 +0100
                Re: how can I tell if a partition is a luks partition? Todd <Todd@invalid.invalid> - 2012-08-01 11:04 -0700
                Re: how can I tell if a partition is a luks partition? "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@gmail.com> - 2012-08-01 14:25 -0400
                Re: how can I tell if a partition is a luks partition? Todd <Todd@invalid.invalid> - 2012-08-01 13:54 -0700
  Re: how can I tell if a partition is a luks partition? Robert Nichols <SEE_SIGNATURE@localhost.localdomain.invalid> - 2012-07-31 13:57 -0500
    Re: how can I tell if a partition is a luks partition? Todd <Todd@invalid.invalid> - 2012-07-31 12:31 -0700
      Re: how can I tell if a partition is a luks partition? Loki Harfagr <l0k1@thedarkdesign.free.fr.INVALID> - 2012-08-01 10:03 +0000
        Re: how can I tell if a partition is a luks partition? Todd <Todd@invalid.invalid> - 2012-08-01 11:03 -0700
          Re: how can I tell if a partition is a luks partition? Loki Harfagr <l0k1@thedarkdesign.free.fr.INVALID> - 2012-08-01 20:53 +0000
          Re: how can I tell if a partition is a luks partition? Robert Nichols <SEE_SIGNATURE@localhost.localdomain.invalid> - 2012-08-02 09:50 -0500
            Re: how can I tell if a partition is a luks partition? Todd <Todd@invalid.invalid> - 2012-08-03 16:21 -0700

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