Path: eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: vallor Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: There he goes again (was: Re: any way to completely disable Emacs eln-cache) Date: 7 Jul 2024 04:03:41 GMT Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net CNl4GQc8634yH6j1zoJWjgCeSh1RXbCkkVLdQO/BXgtxtMZhkN Cancel-Lock: sha1:+ucO86TQqrXHLt6ClumbCPcy66o= sha256:IR+/h9QHa2rd1qha91naIexF5dauJgB8A6qIZmoGzC4= X-Face: +McU)#<-H?9lTb(Th!zR`EpVrp<0)1p5CmPu.kOscy8LRp_\u`:tW;dxPo./(fCl CaKku`)]}.V/"6rISCIDP` User-Agent: Pan/0.159 (Vovchansk; 873418b; Linux-5.15.0-113-lowlatency) On Sun, 7 Jul 2024 03:59:21 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote in : > On 7 Jul 2024 03:25:47 GMT, vallor wrote: > >> On Sun, 7 Jul 2024 01:31:41 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro >> wrote in : >> >>> That’s not running as root now, is it? >> >> Yes, and that's the problem. > > Maybe think of GParted as Nature’s way of telling you not to run GUI tools > as root. Okay, I'll bite -- how do you modify partition tables without running as root? -- -v ASUS TUF Dash F15 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3060 Mobile OS: Linux 5.15.0-113-lowlatency Release: Mint 21.3 Mem: 15.9G "I'm busier than a one-eyed cat watching two mouseholes."