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From: vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
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Subject: Re: There he goes again
Date: 8 Jul 2024 02:10:42 GMT
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On Sun, 7 Jul 2024 22:00:31 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<ldo@nz.invalid> wrote in <v6f35v$gmj7$2@dont-email.me>:

> On 7 Jul 2024 04:03:41 GMT, vallor wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 7 Jul 2024 03:59:21 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
>> <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote in <v6d3qp$6ida$1@dont-email.me>:
>> 
>>> On 7 Jul 2024 03:25:47 GMT, vallor wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Sun, 7 Jul 2024 01:31:41 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
>>>> <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote in <v6cr5s$1kfb$1@dont-email.me>:
>>>>
>>>>> 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?
> 
> Obviously it’s the “GUI tools” part that’s the problem, not the “root”
> part.

So you don't think there should be GUI tools to manage disk
partitions, filesystems, and indeed, anything managed
with uid 0?  Really?

Sounds elitist.

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