Access to Linux (ext3) & Windows (FAT32) partitions (from Ubuntu 9.04)

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Montag, den 10.08.2009, 15:30 +0200 schrieb Heike C. Zimmerer:
> fdisk is located in /sbin.  Since /sbin is usually not in a user's
> $PATH, this means you have to run it as root (e.g., from sudo) or
> explicitly call it as /sbin/fdisk, or include /sbin into your $PATH.
nearly correct, but in this case, PATH in ubuntu contains /sbin
and /usr/sbin by default.
the raw disk nodes though (/dev/sdX) are owned by root and the disk
group (to which no user belongs since that would be a massive security
hole) so you need to use sudo if you want to read raw partitioning data
from it.

ciao
	oli
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