Help with dual booting

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Tue Aug 5 17:41:23 UTC 2008


Ulf Rompe wrote:

> 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" 

I am...

> or altered the 
> permissions to /dev/sd*. 

I certainly wouldn't.

So the question becomes, "does the initial user get automatically added to
disk?"  I think it must.
-- 
derek





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