Re: Can't scan new disk

[Mark Allums <mark@allums.email>]

On 2/20/19 3:19 AM, Curt wrote:
> On 2019-02-20, Mark Allums <mark@allums.email> wrote:
> > > >
> > > Maybe something simple like "lsof" command can shed some light on this
> > > problem?
> > >       $ sudo lsof /dev/sdb
> > >       $ sudo lsof /dev/sdb1
> >
> > root@martha:~# lsof /dev/sdb
> > lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.gvfsd-fuse file system /run/user/1001/gvfs
> >         Output information may be incomplete.
> > root@martha:~# lsof /dev/sdb1
> > lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.gvfsd-fuse file system /run/user/1001/gvfs
> >         Output information may be incomplete.
> > root@martha:~#
>
> > From what I'm reading you'll have to be martha for this and not root
> (*une fois n'est pas coutume*), if martha mounted.

martha is the name of the server.


> > From man mount.fuse:
>
>   SECURITY
>     The fusermount program is installed set-user-gid to fuse. This is done to
>     allow users from  fuse group to mount their own filesystem implementations.
>     There must however be some limitations, in order to prevent Bad User from doing
>     nasty things.  Currently those limitations are:
>
>     1.     The user can only mount on a mountpoint, for which it has write permission
>
>     2.     The mountpoint is not a sticky directory which isn't owned by the user (like /tmp usually
>                is)
>
>     3.     No other user (including root) can access the contents of the mounted filesystem.

The disk is not mounted.