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Re: parted is ALMOST suitable

From Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: parted is ALMOST suitable
Date 2016-11-07 21:10 +0100
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Le 07/11/2016 à 15:18, Richard Owlett a écrit :
>>>
>>>    tomas@rasputin:~$ ls -al /dev/sd*
>>>    brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 Nov  7 09:06 /dev/sda
>>>    brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 Nov  7 09:06 /dev/sda1
>>>    brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 2 Nov  7 09:06 /dev/sda2
>>>    brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 5 Nov  7 09:06 /dev/sda5
>>>
>>> So you'd have to be associated to the "disk" group to read those
>>> things and you'd have to *be* root to write.
>
> Evidently not a solution. Added myself to both "disk" and "root" groups.
> Had no effect when attempting to run either lsblk or parted.

Did you start a new session after adding yourself to the group ?
New groups are only taken into account when opening a session.
FWIW, adding myself to the "disk" group and starting a new session 
worked with lsblk -f. Didn't try parted.

> Off-list it was suggested I try /sbin/blkid /dev/sda. Although the man
> page has a caution when not used as root, it seems to currently work on
> my immediately available Debian machine.

Indeed blkid uses a cache file which is readable by everyone and is 
updated by udev.

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parted is ALMOST suitable Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-07 13:20 +0100
  Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Felipe Salvador <felipe.salvador@gmail.com> - 2016-11-07 13:30 +0100
    Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-07 13:40 +0100
      Re: parted is ALMOST suitable <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-11-07 14:00 +0100
        Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-07 14:20 +0100
          Re: parted is ALMOST suitable <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-11-07 15:00 +0100
            Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-07 15:50 +0100
              Re: parted is ALMOST suitable <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-11-07 16:10 +0100
              Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-11-07 17:30 +0100
      Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Felipe Salvador <felipe.salvador@gmail.com> - 2016-11-07 15:30 +0100
        Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-11-07 16:20 +0100
          Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Aldo Maggi <aldomaggi@katamail.com> - 2016-11-07 18:20 +0100
          Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Felipe Salvador <felipe.salvador@gmail.com> - 2016-11-07 19:00 +0100
          Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-11-08 19:10 +0100
            Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Glenn English <ghe2001@gmail.com> - 2016-11-08 19:40 +0100
              Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2016-11-08 21:10 +0100
                Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-08 21:50 +0100
                Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2016-11-09 00:20 +0100
                Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-09 18:40 +0100
                Re: parted is ALMOST suitable <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-11-09 21:40 +0100
                Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-09 21:50 +0100
                Re: parted is ALMOST suitable <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-11-09 22:20 +0100
                Re: parted is ALMOST suitable <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-11-09 09:50 +0100
                Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-09 11:20 +0100
                Re: parted is ALMOST suitable <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-11-09 11:30 +0100
                Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-09 11:50 +0100
                Re: parted is ALMOST suitable <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-11-09 12:10 +0100
                Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-09 17:10 +0100
                Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-09 15:20 +0100
                Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-09 20:50 +0100
                Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-09 21:40 +0100
                Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-09 21:10 +0100
                Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-11-10 01:20 +0100
                Re: parted is ALMOST suitable <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-11-10 10:10 +0100
                Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-09 19:30 +0100
                Re: parted is ALMOST suitable <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-11-09 21:40 +0100
                Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2016-11-08 22:10 +0100
                Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-11-09 16:00 +0100
                Re: parted is ALMOST suitable <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-11-09 09:40 +0100
        Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-07 16:30 +0100
          Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-07 17:10 +0100
            Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Felipe Salvador <felipe.salvador@gmail.com> - 2016-11-07 18:50 +0100
              Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-07 20:20 +0100
                Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-11-08 00:50 +0100
                Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-08 01:40 +0100
                Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> - 2016-11-08 03:50 +0100
                Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-08 12:00 +0100
                Correction - Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-08 12:20 +0100
                Re: Correction - Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-08 20:30 +0100
                Re: parted is ALMOST suitable David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-11-08 13:50 +0100
                Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-08 20:10 +0100
  Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Frank <zuiderduin@gmx.com> - 2016-11-07 13:30 +0100
  Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2016-11-07 13:40 +0100
  Re: parted is ALMOST suitable <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-11-07 13:50 +0100
    Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-07 14:30 +0100
      Re: parted is ALMOST suitable <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-11-07 15:10 +0100
      Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-07 15:20 +0100
        Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-11-07 15:30 +0100
          Re: parted is ALMOST suitable <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-11-07 15:40 +0100
          Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-07 17:00 +0100
            Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-11-07 17:10 +0100
              Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2016-11-07 17:20 +0100
        Re: parted is ALMOST suitable <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-11-07 15:30 +0100
          Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-11-07 15:40 +0100
            Re: parted is ALMOST suitable <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-11-07 16:10 +0100
              Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2016-11-07 18:00 +0100
                Re: parted is ALMOST suitable <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-11-08 10:20 +0100
        Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-11-07 21:10 +0100
          Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-08 01:00 +0100
            Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-08 12:20 +0100
            Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-11-11 15:40 +0100
              Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-11 17:30 +0100
                Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-11-11 18:10 +0100
                Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-11 18:40 +0100
    Re: parted is ALMOST suitable David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-11-07 15:10 +0100
      Re: parted is ALMOST suitable <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-11-07 15:10 +0100
  Re: parted is ALMOST suitable rhkramer@gmail.com - 2016-11-07 15:00 +0100

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