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Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: There he goes again Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2024 23:35:49 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 25 Message-ID: <v6ht4l$12f54$8@dont-email.me> References: <v69its$3dons$1@dont-email.me> <sG6s8v.B6nB@yahoo.com> <v6ar7b$3ngh6$2@dont-email.me> <v6ci5t$oq$1@dont-email.me> <v6cr5s$1kfb$1@dont-email.me> <leug5rFgsj3U2@mid.individual.net> <v6d3qp$6ida$1@dont-email.me> <lf0rmsFmm0pU7@mid.individual.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2024 01:35:49 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="04bb535b0c0a3ec0d50e843b1924189b"; logging-data="1129636"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19A8KEctUn/riGEb2YQ5Tu4" User-Agent: Pan/0.158 (Avdiivka; ) Cancel-Lock: sha1:qo1aWmE+SI7ISox5PpMnsxc6T2U= Bytes: 1971 On Mon, 8 Jul 2024 02:54:52 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote: > On 2024-07-07 05:59, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > >> 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. > > gparted is a GUI tool intended to be run as root. And we have seen what happens when it is. Some decades ago there was a devilish little gadget, shaped exactly like a legitimate electrical plug, with a sign on it that said “The Little Wonder Fuse-Blower: Insert In Electrical Socket And PRESS!”. Funny how many people did exactly that ...