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

From "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: how can I tell if a partition is a luks partition?
Date 2012-07-31 16:03 -0400
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On 2012-07-31, Aragorn wrote:
> 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.

   I disagree.

   I always have /sbin in my path as a regular user.

   There are commands in /sbin that I often use as a regular user.

-- 
   Chris F.A. Johnson, <http://cfajohnson.com>
   Author:
   Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress)
   Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)

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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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