Package: udev Version: 0.125-7 Severity: normal As I'm not sure about this is a bug or not, I only set the severity to normal. Here is the thing : I was playing with a USB Key (512Mo) to make an USB boot key in order to install debian on another computer. Unfortunaly, I messed up with the device nodes and used /dev/sda (my 320GB external HDD) instead of /dev/sdb (my USB Key). So, the partition tables, and the start of the ext3 partition, were overwritten, causing the (unrecoverable?) loss of data.
I made this using my user's privileges. It wouldn't have been possible if /dev/sda's group were disk instead of floppy. I can remember that, a few months ago, my external HDD was under the disk group, whereas my USB key was under the floppy group, and that's the behaviour I would have wanted. -- Package-specific info: -- /etc/udev/rules.d/: /etc/udev/rules.d/: total 176 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3586 aoû 7 01:48 50-udev.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1543 aoû 7 01:48 60-persistent-input.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4554 aoû 7 01:48 60-persistent-storage.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1582 aoû 7 01:48 60-persistent-storage-tape.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 523 aoû 7 01:48 60-persistent-v4l.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1248 jun 23 20:55 70-persistent-cd.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 775 déc 19 2007 70-persistent-net.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 452 aoû 7 01:48 75-cd-aliases-generator.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3083 sep 19 03:11 75-persistent-net-generator.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2282 aoû 7 01:48 80-drivers.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 82 aoû 17 20:15 90-hal.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4247 aoû 7 01:48 91-permissions.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 593 aoû 7 01:48 95-late.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 jui 10 11:51 libmtp7.rules -> ../libmtp7.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 sep 11 2007 z60_alsa-utils.rules -> ../alsa-utils.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 109 mar 1 2008 z60_boinc-client.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 sep 11 2007 z60_hdparm.rules -> ../hdparm.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1914 jan 3 2008 z60_libccid.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2656 jun 15 19:27 z60_libpisock9.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14883 jui 31 21:54 z60_libsane-extras.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 72908 sep 22 11:30 z60_libsane.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 80 nov 7 12:14 z60_virtualbox-ose.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6661 déc 2 2007 z60_xserver-xorg-input-wacom.rules -- /sys/: /sys/block/hda/dev /sys/block/hda/hda1/dev /sys/block/hda/hda2/dev /sys/block/hda/hda3/dev /sys/block/hda/hda5/dev /sys/block/hda/hda6/dev /sys/block/hda/hda7/dev /sys/block/hda/hda8/dev /sys/block/hdb/dev /sys/block/loop0/dev /sys/block/loop1/dev /sys/block/loop2/dev /sys/block/loop3/dev /sys/block/loop4/dev /sys/block/loop5/dev /sys/block/loop6/dev /sys/block/loop7/dev /sys/block/ram0/dev /sys/block/ram10/dev /sys/block/ram11/dev /sys/block/ram12/dev /sys/block/ram13/dev /sys/block/ram14/dev /sys/block/ram15/dev /sys/block/ram1/dev /sys/block/ram2/dev /sys/block/ram3/dev /sys/block/ram4/dev /sys/block/ram5/dev /sys/block/ram6/dev /sys/block/ram7/dev /sys/block/ram8/dev /sys/block/ram9/dev /sys/block/sda/dev /sys/block/sda/sda1/dev /sys/class/bsg/13:0:0:0/dev /sys/class/drm/card0/dev /sys/class/hidraw/hidraw0/dev /sys/class/hidraw/hidraw1/dev /sys/class/hidraw/hidraw2/dev /sys/class/input/input0/event0/dev /sys/class/input/input10/event10/dev /sys/class/input/input10/mouse1/dev /sys/class/input/input11/event6/dev /sys/class/input/input11/mouse0/dev /sys/class/input/input1/event1/dev /sys/class/input/input2/event2/dev /sys/class/input/input3/event3/dev /sys/class/input/input4/event4/dev /sys/class/input/input5/event5/dev /sys/class/input/input7/event7/dev /sys/class/input/input8/event8/dev /sys/class/input/input9/event9/dev /sys/class/input/mice/dev /sys/class/misc/cpu_dma_latency/dev /sys/class/misc/fuse/dev /sys/class/misc/hpet/dev /sys/class/misc/network_latency/dev /sys/class/misc/network_throughput/dev /sys/class/misc/psaux/dev /sys/class/misc/snapshot/dev /sys/class/misc/vboxdrv/dev /sys/class/misc/watchdog/dev /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/dev /sys/class/sound/controlC0/dev /sys/class/sound/pcmC0D0c/dev /sys/class/sound/pcmC0D0p/dev /sys/class/sound/pcmC0D1p/dev /sys/class/sound/pcmC0D6c/dev /sys/class/sound/pcmC0D6p/dev /sys/class/sound/seq/dev /sys/class/sound/timer/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev1.1/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev2.1/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev3.1/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev3.2/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev3.4/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev3.5/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev4.1/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev5.1/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev5.21/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev5.4/dev /sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev1.1_ep00/dev /sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev1.1_ep81/dev /sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev2.1_ep00/dev /sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev2.1_ep81/dev /sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev3.1_ep00/dev /sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev3.1_ep81/dev /sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev3.2_ep00/dev /sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev3.2_ep81/dev /sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev3.4_ep00/dev /sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev3.4_ep81/dev /sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev3.4_ep82/dev /sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev3.5_ep00/dev /sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev3.5_ep81/dev /sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev4.1_ep00/dev /sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev4.1_ep81/dev /sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev5.1_ep00/dev /sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev5.1_ep81/dev /sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev5.21_ep00/dev /sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev5.21_ep02/dev /sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev5.21_ep81/dev /sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev5.4_ep00/dev /sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev5.4_ep81/dev /sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev5.4_ep82/dev /sys/class/video4linux/video0/dev /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb1/dev /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb2/dev /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb3/3-1/3-1.1/dev /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb3/3-1/3-1.3/dev /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb3/3-1/dev /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb3/dev /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.3/usb4/dev /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb5/5-1/dev /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb5/5-4/dev /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb5/dev -- Kernel configuration: -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (120, 'unstable'), (105, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages udev depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.7-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libselinux1 2.0.65-5 SELinux shared libraries ii libvolume-id0 0.125-7 libvolume_id shared library ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip udev recommends no packages. udev suggests no packages. -- debconf information: udev/new_kernel_needed: false udev/reboot_needed: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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