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Re: parted is ALMOST suitable



On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 07:59:56AM -0700, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
> 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....

brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 nov  7 11:00 /dev/sda

I'm in the disk group

-- 
Felipe Salvador


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