Bug#439409: Gparted should not "hand-check" permissions

2016-11-11 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 01:18:07PM -0500, Phil Susi wrote: > On 11/10/2016 9:03 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > This is from the mkfs.ext2 man page: > > ext isn't the only filesystem. We're losing sight of the bug's topic, which is whether gparted sh

Bug#439409: Gparted should not "hand-check" permissions

2016-11-10 Thread Phil Susi
On 11/10/2016 9:03 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > This is from the mkfs.ext2 man page: ext isn't the only filesystem.

Bug#439409: Gparted should not "hand-check" permissions

2016-11-10 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 08:57:40AM -0500, Phil Susi wrote: > On 11/9/2016 3:26 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 10:57:23AM -0500, Phil Susi wrote: > >> On 11/9/2016 9:43 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >>> unless root has set up fs

Bug#439409: Gparted should not "hand-check" permissions

2016-11-10 Thread Phil Susi
On 11/9/2016 3:26 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 10:57:23AM -0500, Phil Susi wrote: >> On 11/9/2016 9:43 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >>> unless root has set up fstab accordingly, to name but one variant. > >> fstab has nothing to do with it. That only lets you mount and unm

Bug#439409: Gparted should not "hand-check" permissions

2016-11-09 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 10:57:23AM -0500, Phil Susi wrote: > On 11/9/2016 9:43 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > unless root has set up fstab accordingly, to name but one variant. > > fstab has nothing to do with it. That only lets you mount and unmoun

Bug#439409: Gparted should not "hand-check" permissions

2016-11-09 Thread Phil Susi
On 11/9/2016 9:43 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > unless root has set up fstab accordingly, to name but one variant. fstab has nothing to do with it. That only lets you mount and unmount existing filesystems. > This is a red herring. Hand-checking permissions in an application > is unnecessary and

Bug#439409: Gparted should not "hand-check" permissions

2016-11-09 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 09:01:54AM -0500, Phil Susi wrote: > On 11/9/2016 3:43 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > I have to concur with Stefan on this. My use case is even more > > stupid -- no "real" device, but just a disk image as a file. > > > > Fdis

Bug#439409: Gparted should not "hand-check" permissions

2016-11-09 Thread Phil Susi
On 11/9/2016 3:43 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > I have to concur with Stefan on this. My use case is even more > stupid -- no "real" device, but just a disk image as a file. > > Fdisk "just works" on that, whereas gparted... see above. > > With all this VM rage of late, this kind of use cases are