Re: parted is ALMOST suitable
Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> writes:
> Felipe Salvador <felipe.salvador@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 06:37:53AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
>>> On 11/7/2016 6:20 AM, Felipe Salvador wrote:
>>> > On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 06:11:50AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
>>> > > *HOWEVER* parted requires root privileges. That is not acceptable.
>>> > > Suggestions?
>>> > > TIA
>>> >
>>> > lsblk -fr ?
>>> >
>>>
>>> Debian is perverse ;{
>>> man page suggested good things.
>>> However when run as other than root, there is a column heading "FSTYPE".
>>
>>> It is blank for all partitions.
>>> They are present when run as root.
>>> Thanks for trying.
>>
>> I don't see this behaviour
>>
>> ~$ lsblk -fr
>> NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID MOUNTPOINT
>> sda
>> sda1 ext2 ... /boot
>> sda2 ext4 ... /
>> sda3 ext2 ... /tmp
>> etc etc etc
>>
>> or
>>
>> file -s /dev/sda{1..5} | awk '{print $5}'
>
> I was just about to post a very similar followup when I discovered a
> gaping security hole (really, about as big as it gets) on my machine:
>
> snowball:404$ ls -l /dev/sda2
> brw-rw-rw- 1 root root 8, 2 Nov 7 07:54 /dev/sda2
>
> You might want to check your permissions as well....
Following up my own post in hopes this gets archived somewhere: the
bitscope software (which controls a USB oscilloscope) I had on my system
had installed a udev rule that was screwing up the disk permissions.
Upgrading to the latest version (why oh why can't these people put their
software in the repositories, or at least run their own repositories?)
fixed it.
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