Your message dated Sun, 12 Apr 2009 03:50:18 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#506796: udev: External USB Hard Drive device node 
under the floppy group
has caused the Debian Bug report #506796,
regarding udev: External USB Hard Drive device node under the floppy group
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506796: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=506796
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: udev
Version: 0.125-7
Severity: normal

As I'm not sure about this is a bug or not, I only set the severity to normal.
Here is the thing : I was playing with a USB Key (512Mo) to make an USB boot 
key in order to install debian on another computer.
Unfortunaly, I messed up with the device nodes and used /dev/sda (my 320GB 
external HDD) instead of /dev/sdb (my USB Key).
So, the partition tables, and the start of the ext3 partition, were 
overwritten, causing the (unrecoverable?) loss of data.

I made this using my user's privileges. It wouldn't have been possible if 
/dev/sda's group were disk instead of floppy.

I can remember that, a few months ago, my external HDD was under the disk 
group, whereas my USB key was under the floppy group,
and that's the behaviour I would have wanted.

-- Package-specific info:
-- /etc/udev/rules.d/:
/etc/udev/rules.d/:
total 176
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  3586 aoû  7 01:48 50-udev.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1543 aoû  7 01:48 60-persistent-input.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  4554 aoû  7 01:48 60-persistent-storage.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1582 aoû  7 01:48 60-persistent-storage-tape.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   523 aoû  7 01:48 60-persistent-v4l.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1248 jun 23 20:55 70-persistent-cd.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   775 déc 19  2007 70-persistent-net.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   452 aoû  7 01:48 75-cd-aliases-generator.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  3083 sep 19 03:11 75-persistent-net-generator.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2282 aoû  7 01:48 80-drivers.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    82 aoû 17 20:15 90-hal.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  4247 aoû  7 01:48 91-permissions.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   593 aoû  7 01:48 95-late.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    16 jui 10 11:51 libmtp7.rules -> ../libmtp7.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    19 sep 11  2007 z60_alsa-utils.rules -> 
../alsa-utils.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   109 mar  1  2008 z60_boinc-client.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    15 sep 11  2007 z60_hdparm.rules -> ../hdparm.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1914 jan  3  2008 z60_libccid.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2656 jun 15 19:27 z60_libpisock9.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14883 jui 31 21:54 z60_libsane-extras.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 72908 sep 22 11:30 z60_libsane.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    80 nov  7 12:14 z60_virtualbox-ose.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  6661 déc  2  2007 z60_xserver-xorg-input-wacom.rules

-- /sys/:
/sys/block/hda/dev
/sys/block/hda/hda1/dev
/sys/block/hda/hda2/dev
/sys/block/hda/hda3/dev
/sys/block/hda/hda5/dev
/sys/block/hda/hda6/dev
/sys/block/hda/hda7/dev
/sys/block/hda/hda8/dev
/sys/block/hdb/dev
/sys/block/loop0/dev
/sys/block/loop1/dev
/sys/block/loop2/dev
/sys/block/loop3/dev
/sys/block/loop4/dev
/sys/block/loop5/dev
/sys/block/loop6/dev
/sys/block/loop7/dev
/sys/block/ram0/dev
/sys/block/ram10/dev
/sys/block/ram11/dev
/sys/block/ram12/dev
/sys/block/ram13/dev
/sys/block/ram14/dev
/sys/block/ram15/dev
/sys/block/ram1/dev
/sys/block/ram2/dev
/sys/block/ram3/dev
/sys/block/ram4/dev
/sys/block/ram5/dev
/sys/block/ram6/dev
/sys/block/ram7/dev
/sys/block/ram8/dev
/sys/block/ram9/dev
/sys/block/sda/dev
/sys/block/sda/sda1/dev
/sys/class/bsg/13:0:0:0/dev
/sys/class/drm/card0/dev
/sys/class/hidraw/hidraw0/dev
/sys/class/hidraw/hidraw1/dev
/sys/class/hidraw/hidraw2/dev
/sys/class/input/input0/event0/dev
/sys/class/input/input10/event10/dev
/sys/class/input/input10/mouse1/dev
/sys/class/input/input11/event6/dev
/sys/class/input/input11/mouse0/dev
/sys/class/input/input1/event1/dev
/sys/class/input/input2/event2/dev
/sys/class/input/input3/event3/dev
/sys/class/input/input4/event4/dev
/sys/class/input/input5/event5/dev
/sys/class/input/input7/event7/dev
/sys/class/input/input8/event8/dev
/sys/class/input/input9/event9/dev
/sys/class/input/mice/dev
/sys/class/misc/cpu_dma_latency/dev
/sys/class/misc/fuse/dev
/sys/class/misc/hpet/dev
/sys/class/misc/network_latency/dev
/sys/class/misc/network_throughput/dev
/sys/class/misc/psaux/dev
/sys/class/misc/snapshot/dev
/sys/class/misc/vboxdrv/dev
/sys/class/misc/watchdog/dev
/sys/class/rtc/rtc0/dev
/sys/class/sound/controlC0/dev
/sys/class/sound/pcmC0D0c/dev
/sys/class/sound/pcmC0D0p/dev
/sys/class/sound/pcmC0D1p/dev
/sys/class/sound/pcmC0D6c/dev
/sys/class/sound/pcmC0D6p/dev
/sys/class/sound/seq/dev
/sys/class/sound/timer/dev
/sys/class/usb_device/usbdev1.1/dev
/sys/class/usb_device/usbdev2.1/dev
/sys/class/usb_device/usbdev3.1/dev
/sys/class/usb_device/usbdev3.2/dev
/sys/class/usb_device/usbdev3.4/dev
/sys/class/usb_device/usbdev3.5/dev
/sys/class/usb_device/usbdev4.1/dev
/sys/class/usb_device/usbdev5.1/dev
/sys/class/usb_device/usbdev5.21/dev
/sys/class/usb_device/usbdev5.4/dev
/sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev1.1_ep00/dev
/sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev1.1_ep81/dev
/sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev2.1_ep00/dev
/sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev2.1_ep81/dev
/sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev3.1_ep00/dev
/sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev3.1_ep81/dev
/sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev3.2_ep00/dev
/sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev3.2_ep81/dev
/sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev3.4_ep00/dev
/sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev3.4_ep81/dev
/sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev3.4_ep82/dev
/sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev3.5_ep00/dev
/sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev3.5_ep81/dev
/sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev4.1_ep00/dev
/sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev4.1_ep81/dev
/sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev5.1_ep00/dev
/sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev5.1_ep81/dev
/sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev5.21_ep00/dev
/sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev5.21_ep02/dev
/sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev5.21_ep81/dev
/sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev5.4_ep00/dev
/sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev5.4_ep81/dev
/sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev5.4_ep82/dev
/sys/class/video4linux/video0/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb1/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb2/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb3/3-1/3-1.1/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb3/3-1/3-1.3/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb3/3-1/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb3/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.3/usb4/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb5/5-1/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb5/5-4/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb5/dev

-- Kernel configuration:


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (120, 'unstable'), (105, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages udev depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.24     Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                         2.7-16     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libselinux1                   2.0.65-5   SELinux shared libraries
ii  libvolume-id0                 0.125-7    libvolume_id shared library
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-20     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

udev recommends no packages.

udev suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
  udev/new_kernel_needed: false
  udev/reboot_needed:



--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
On Nov 24, Thibaut GIRKA <[email protected]> wrote:

> As I'm not sure about this is a bug or not
No:

# all block devices on these buses are "removable"
SUBSYSTEM=="block", SUBSYSTEMS=="usb|ieee1394|mmc|pcmcia", GROUP="floppy"

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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