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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: There he goes again (was: Re: any way to completely disable Emacs
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Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2024 22:00:31 -0000 (UTC)
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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.