Sven Arvidsson writes:
> dd'ing an image to a raw device does require root.
Why? If it's a removable device and not a system filesystem, it
wouldn't be unreasonable to give such access to anyone logged in
at the console, on the grounds that they could otherwise take
the device away and write it o
On 2015-11-28, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Saturday 28 November 2015 10:18:16 Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>> X needs root rights to access a different VT
>
> Why?
>
> That is a real question. $USER doesn't appear to need root rights to
> access a different VT.
You, sitting at the keyboard, are not a pro
On 2015-11-26, Sven Hartge wrote:
> Ed Jabbour wrote:
>> Ran df -hT, and along with the usual partitions there's this:
>
>> /dev/block/8:3 ext4 12G 4.1G 7.3G 36% /
>
>> I have never seen that before. What is it?
>
> major:minor 8:3 would be /dev/sda3
>
> See for yourself in /dev/block
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