On Tue 08 Nov 2016 at 05:19:15 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 11/8/2016 4:58 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > >[snip] > > > >Actually I now have two options, "udevadm info" and "/sbin/blkid". > >>From Brian's comment on bug #776905, in future releases "blkid" > >may be an option. > > I'll have to modify that. Brian has stated in another sub-thread: > >... When blkid is run as root it creates the file > >/run/blkid/blkid.tab. A user running blkid only gets to see the contents > >of blkid.tab. There is no change to blkid.tab unless the command is run > >by root again. This makes /sbin/blkid useless as a user command for the > >purposes discussed in this thread.
I probably gave the impression somewhere in this narrative that blkid as non-root was ok. It isn't; apologies. On Jessie you basically have only the single choice of udevadm. But it is still a win. :) -- Brian.