Help with dual booting

[Ulf Rompe]

On Di, 2008-08-05 at 12:34 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
> >>> sudo fdisk -l > ~/mydisks.txt
> >>>
> >>> 3) type in your password when prompted
> >> 
> >> There's no need for sudo or output redirection.
> > 
> > If you don't use sudo you don't get any output!!
> 
> I certainly do.

That's because you are a member of group "disk" or altered the
permissions to /dev/sd*. Unprivileged users will just get "Cannot
open /dev/XXX". (Which of course is some kind of output, too - you're
right.)

[x] ulf 

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