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Re: parted is ALMOST suitable



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On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 07:25:33AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:

[...]

> >>*HOWEVER* parted requires root privileges. That is not acceptable.
> >>Suggestions?

[...]

> >So you'd have to be associated to the "disk" group to read those
> >things and you'd have to *be* root to write.
> 
> *THAT* sentence may be key to solving multiple problems. All of my
> installs have implicitly accepted default groups for user(s).

    sudo adduser myself disk

might do that.

regards
- -- t
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