Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-03-17 Thread David Wright
On Sat 16 Mar 2019 at 10:49:19 (+0100), Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 11/03/2019 à 19:46, David Wright a écrit : > > On Sat 09 Mar 2019 at 20:31:36 (+0100), Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > > > > > I did not mean using UDF on opticals discs but on regular drives, just > > > as any other general purpose

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-03-16 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 11/03/2019 à 19:46, David Wright a écrit : On Sat 09 Mar 2019 at 20:31:36 (+0100), Pascal Hambourg wrote: I did not mean using UDF on opticals discs but on regular drives, just as any other general purpose filesystem. I once considered using it for file sharing between Windows and Linux

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-03-11 Thread David Wright
On Sat 09 Mar 2019 at 20:31:36 (+0100), Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 08/03/2019 à 04:15, David Wright a écrit : > > On Thu 07 Mar 2019 at 23:12:29 (+0100), Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > > Le 07/03/2019 à 20:23, David Wright a écrit : > > > > > > > > A filesystem > > > > that has a label, has that

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-03-09 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 08/03/2019 à 04:15, David Wright a écrit : On Thu 07 Mar 2019 at 23:12:29 (+0100), Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 07/03/2019 à 20:23, David Wright a écrit : A filesystem that has a label, has that label regardless of any OS. Have you ever used UDF ? Yes. As far as my experience goes,

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-03-08 Thread David Wright
Please don't oversnip. This subthread was about labels (aka LABELs). On Fri 08 Mar 2019 at 08:20:40 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 09:15:51PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 07 Mar 2019 at 23:12:29 (+0100), Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > > Le 07/03/2019 à 20:23, David

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-03-08 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 09:15:51PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > Yes. As far as my experience goes, there's not a lot of difference. > I've had no occasion to *write* DVDs on a computer system, so I can > only speak of reading them. For writing, fstab and mount are not involved in any way

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-03-07 Thread Cousin Stanley
David Wright wrote: > I would not expect to find the characters > /dev/disk/by-label/ anywhere in the partition. > > That string belongs to the linux system, not to the card. > > That's what I meant by "actually belongs to the filesystems". OK, that's clear and I understand. >> I'm not

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-03-07 Thread David Wright
On Thu 07 Mar 2019 at 23:12:29 (+0100), Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 07/03/2019 à 20:23, David Wright a écrit : > > > > A filesystem > > that has a label, has that label regardless of any OS. > > Have you ever used UDF ? Yes. As far as my experience goes, there's not a lot of difference. I've

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-03-07 Thread David Wright
On Thu 07 Mar 2019 at 13:49:42 (-0700), Cousin Stanley wrote: > David Wright wrote: > > > I prefer to populate fstab with canonical information > > that actually belongs to the filesystems that are to be mounted. > > I don't understand what you're saying here. > > Does a disk label not

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-03-07 Thread Cousin Stanley
Michael Stone wrote: > On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 01:49:42PM -0700, Cousin Stanley wrote: >>David Wright wrote: >>> All that stuff in /dev/disk/ is just an ephemeral >>> bunch of convenient symbolic links, presumably conjured >>> up by udev or somesuch, if not the linux kernel >> >> But are they

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-03-07 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 07/03/2019 à 20:23, David Wright a écrit : A filesystem that has a label, has that label regardless of any OS. Have you ever used UDF ? It has a set of identifiers, and I observed that Windows and blkid did not use the same identifier as the label.

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-03-07 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 01:49:42PM -0700, Cousin Stanley wrote: David Wright wrote: All that stuff in /dev/disk/ is just an ephemeral bunch of convenient symbolic links, presumably conjured up by udev or somesuch, if not the linux kernel But are they not accurate after boot for particular

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-03-07 Thread Cousin Stanley
David Wright wrote: > I prefer to populate fstab with canonical information > that actually belongs to the filesystems that are to be mounted. I don't understand what you're saying here. Does a disk label not belong to a filesystem that is to be mounted ? > A filesystem that has a

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-03-07 Thread David Wright
On Thu 07 Mar 2019 at 09:59:43 (-0700), Cousin Stanley wrote: > Michael Stone wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 07:11:36AM -0700, Cousin Stanley wrote: > >>Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > >>> > >>> and my fstab is: > >>> > >>> # /etc/fstab: static file system information. > >>> > >> > >>

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-03-07 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 09:59:43AM -0700, Cousin Stanley wrote: Michael Stone wrote: On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 07:11:36AM -0700, Cousin Stanley wrote: Stephen P. Molnar wrote: and my fstab is: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. I've found that labeling my disk

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-03-07 Thread Cousin Stanley
Michael Stone wrote: > On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 07:11:36AM -0700, Cousin Stanley wrote: >>Stephen P. Molnar wrote: >> >>> >>> and my fstab is: >>> >>> # /etc/fstab: static file system information. >>> >> >> I've found that labeling my disk partitions >> and using

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-03-07 Thread Felix Miata
Cousin Stanley composed on 2019-03-07 07:11 (UTC-0700): > To label the disk partitions check the man pages > for the following labeling options > >$ ls -1 /sbin | grep label >dosfslabel >e2label >exfatlabel >fatlabel >ntfslabel >swaplabel > The e2label

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-03-07 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 07:11:36AM -0700, Cousin Stanley wrote: Stephen P. Molnar wrote: and my fstab is: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. I've found that labeling my disk partitions and using /dev/disk/by-label/xyzzy lines in the /etc/fstab file seems to be

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-03-07 Thread Cousin Stanley
Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > and my fstab is: > > # /etc/fstab: static file system information. > I've found that labeling my disk partitions and using /dev/disk/by-label/xyzzy lines in the /etc/fstab file seems to be much easier for my own small brain to comprehend.

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-03-06 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
I would beg the group's indulgence again, as I want to be sure I get this correctly. I think this is what I want as the fstab: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a # device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-03-05 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 05/03/2019 à 15:17, Stephen P. Molnar a écrit : NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda  8:0    0 465.8G  0 disk ├─sda1   8:1    0 457.9G  0 part / ├─sda2   8:2    0 1K  0 part └─sda5   8:5    0   7.9G  0 part [SWAP] sdb  8:16   0   1.8T  0 disk ├─sdb1   8:17   0   1.8T 

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-03-05 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 03/01/2019 01:56 PM, David Wright wrote: On Fri 01 Mar 2019 at 08:46:30 (-0500), Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I am sure that you will castigate men for two things: 1. Top posting 2. Not replying to debian-users However, I wanted to keep my reply private in the hope of not starting a flame

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-03-01 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 12:49:11PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >>nofail is intended for removable drives that could be missing on boot, > >>such as Thinkpad ultrabay drives/CF or SD cards. > > It is also, as he said, useful if you don't want a failure of > > a non-essential disk to

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-03-01 Thread Stefan Monnier
>>nofail is intended for removable drives that could be missing on boot, >>such as Thinkpad ultrabay drives/CF or SD cards. > It is also, as he said, useful if you don't want a failure of > a non-essential disk to make the system drop to single user on boot. Yup. `nofail` corresponds to the

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-03-01 Thread David Wright
On Fri 01 Mar 2019 at 12:00:06 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 10:52:00AM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 01 Mar 2019 at 01:30:47 (-0500), Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > > That's what I'd been thinking, too. Because of your question, I just > > > tried a search for... >

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-03-01 Thread David Wright
On Fri 01 Mar 2019 at 07:30:15 (+), Dekks Herton wrote: > David Wright writes: > > On Thu 28 Feb 2019 at 15:45:47 (-0500), Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > >> # /etc/fstab: static file system information. > >> # > >> # Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a > >> # device;

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-03-01 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 10:52:00AM -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 01 Mar 2019 at 01:30:47 (-0500), Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > That's what I'd been thinking, too. Because of your question, I just > > tried a search for... > > > > "defaults,rw" /etc/fstab > > You've really limited what can

Re: string "defaults" in fstab options columns (was: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive)

2019-03-01 Thread David Wright
On Fri 01 Mar 2019 at 02:51:33 (-0500), Felix Miata wrote: > Cindy-Sue Causey composed on 2019-03-01 01:30 (UTC-0500): > > Felix Miata wrote: > >> David Wright composed on 2019-02-28 20:26 (UTC-0600): > >>> I always add an explicit rw or ro under options, along with defaults. > > >> English can

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-03-01 Thread David Wright
On Fri 01 Mar 2019 at 01:30:47 (-0500), Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > On 2/28/19, Felix Miata wrote: > > David Wright composed on 2019-02-28 20:26 (UTC-0600): > > > >> I always add an explicit rw or ro under options, along with defaults. > > > > English can be tricky. Please clarify. AIUI, the string

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-03-01 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 07:30:15AM +, Dekks Herton wrote: David Wright writes: I always add an explicit rw or ro under options, along with defaults. With systemd, I add nofail to any filesystems that aren't vital for the system to run, which means the system will still boot fully without

Re: string "defaults" in fstab options columns (was: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive)

2019-02-28 Thread Felix Miata
Cindy-Sue Causey composed on 2019-03-01 01:30 (UTC-0500): > Felix Miata wrote: >> David Wright composed on 2019-02-28 20:26 (UTC-0600): >>> I always add an explicit rw or ro under options, along with defaults. >> English can be tricky. Please clarify. AIUI, the string "defaults" is a >>

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-02-28 Thread Dekks Herton
David Wright writes: > On Thu 28 Feb 2019 at 15:45:47 (-0500), Stephen P. Molnar wrote: >> I am running Stretch and after much trial and tribulation, and at >> times abject horror, I have succeeded in installing a new SSD. >> >> My drive structure is: >> >> comp@AbNormal:~$ lsblk >> NAME

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-02-28 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 2/28/19, Felix Miata wrote: > David Wright composed on 2019-02-28 20:26 (UTC-0600): > >> I always add an explicit rw or ro under options, along with defaults. > > English can be tricky. Please clarify. AIUI, the string "defaults" is a > placeholder, unnecessary if > any other option is

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-02-28 Thread Felix Miata
David Wright composed on 2019-02-28 20:26 (UTC-0600): > I always add an explicit rw or ro under options, along with defaults. English can be tricky. Please clarify. AIUI, the string "defaults" is a placeholder, unnecessary if any other option is specified. Man mount doesn't make it clear to me.

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-02-28 Thread David Wright
On Thu 28 Feb 2019 at 15:45:47 (-0500), Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > I am running Stretch and after much trial and tribulation, and at > times abject horror, I have succeeded in installing a new SSD. > > My drive structure is: > > comp@AbNormal:~$ lsblk > NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-02-28 Thread Dekks Herton
"Stephen P. Molnar" writes: > I am running Stretch and after much trial and tribulation, and at times > abject horror, I have succeeded in installing a new SSD. > > My drive structure is: > > comp@AbNormal:~$ lsblk > NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT > sda 8:00 465.8G 0 disk

User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-02-28 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
I am running Stretch and after much trial and tribulation, and at times abject horror, I have succeeded in installing a new SSD. My drive structure is: comp@AbNormal:~$ lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:00 465.8G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:10 457.9G 0 part / ├─sda2