Re: EUREKA!!!! - was [Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION]

From	Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: EUREKA!!!! - was [Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION]
Date	2016-10-30 18:10 +0100
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On Sun 30 Oct 2016 at 09:19:04 -0400, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:

> On Sunday, October 30, 2016 08:54:45 AM Brian wrote:
> > There are some good things which have come out of this discussion. To
> > use cfdisk, fdisk, dd, mkfs.vfat and grub-install a user has to be
> > root. Being able to mount as non-root is neither here nor there on
> > jessie and stretch for the purpose of installing GRUB, so references to
> > pmount etc can go.
> 
> Are you the maintainer or an author on that wiki page (the one that has been 
> discussed here)?

I don't think wiki pages have maintainers as such, just people who take
an interest and provide additional information, corrections and updates.
Yes, I am the originator of the page, but it is everyone's page.

> If so, have you considered splitting the page into two pages, one for Wheezy 
> (or pre-Jessie) and one for Jessie?  The intent would be to keep valid 
> information for Wheezy for people that might still need it.

As it stands, anyone using pre-Jessie (that's a good way you found of
putting it) could follow the instructions on the page and carry them out
without needing root access. It should be possible to accomodate pre-
and post-Jessie users on the same page by making the requirements for
the different distributions clearer. After all, the commands to use are
practically identical. A small extra section would do it.

--  
Brian.

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Permissions for an entire PARTITION Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-10-25 17:40 +0200
  Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-10-25 17:50 +0200
    Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-10-25 18:10 +0200
    Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-10-25 18:40 +0200
      Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-10-25 18:50 +0200
        Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-10-28 17:30 +0200
          Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-10-28 17:50 +0200
          Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2016-10-28 21:40 +0200
            EUREKA!!!! - was [Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-10-28 22:50 +0200
              Re: EUREKA!!!! - was [Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION] "John L. Ries" <jries@salford-systems.com> - 2016-10-28 23:10 +0200
              Re: EUREKA!!!! - was [Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-29 00:20 +0200
                Re: EUREKA!!!! - was [Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-10-29 01:40 +0200
                Re: EUREKA!!!! - was [Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION] Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2016-10-29 11:20 +0200
                Re: EUREKA!!!! - was [Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION] rhkramer@gmail.com - 2016-10-29 14:20 +0200
                Re: EUREKA!!!! - was [Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION] Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2016-10-29 15:00 +0200
                Re: EUREKA!!!! - was [Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-29 16:10 +0200
                Re: EUREKA!!!! - was [Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION] Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2016-10-29 17:50 +0200
                Re: EUREKA!!!! - was [Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-29 20:20 +0200
                Re: EUREKA!!!! - was [Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION] Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2016-10-29 22:30 +0200
                Re: EUREKA!!!! - was [Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-30 00:50 +0200
                Re: EUREKA!!!! - was [Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION] Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2016-10-30 10:30 +0100
                Re: EUREKA!!!! - was [Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-30 14:00 +0100
                Re: EUREKA!!!! - was [Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION] rhkramer@gmail.com - 2016-10-30 14:20 +0100
                Re: EUREKA!!!! - was [Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-30 18:10 +0100
                Re: EUREKA!!!! - was [Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION] rhkramer@gmail.com - 2016-10-29 21:30 +0200
                Re: EUREKA!!!! - was [Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-29 22:00 +0200
                Re: EUREKA!!!! - was [Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION] rhkramer@gmail.com - 2016-10-29 22:30 +0200
                Re: EUREKA!!!! - was [Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-30 01:10 +0200
                Re: EUREKA!!!! - was [Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION] rhkramer@gmail.com - 2016-10-30 01:20 +0200
                Re: EUREKA!!!! - was [Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION] Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-10-30 13:00 +0100
                Re: EUREKA!!!! - was [Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION] David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-10-31 02:30 +0100
          Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de> - 2016-10-29 15:30 +0200
      Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de> - 2016-10-25 19:40 +0200
      Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-10-26 10:20 +0200
        Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION rhkramer@gmail.com - 2016-10-26 13:20 +0200
          Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-10-26 14:30 +0200
            Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-10-26 14:50 +0200
            Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2016-10-27 07:50 +0200

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