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

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On 2012-08-01, Todd wrote:
> On 07/31/2012 12:38 PM, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
>> 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?
>>
>
> It is.
>
> $ echo $PATH
> /usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/home/tony/bin:./:/home/todd:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/home/linuxutil:./

   Then you can just type 'blkid' without the directory. If you can't,
   there's something you're not telling us.

   What is the output of "type -a blkid"?

-- 
   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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