Jeff Vian wrote:
>
> Also /dev/hdd is the raw device on the secondary ide slave. It is not a
> filesystem and cannot be accessed by anything AFAIK except using fdisk
> (and associates), or dd tools on it. It cannot even be mounted.
Unless /dev/hdd happens to be a CD drive.
> You should not be changing permissions on the /dev devices, but rather
> on the filesystems that are accessible when those devices are mounted.
It's arguable that it's better to relax the permissions on a CD drive
and run cdparanoia (etc.) as a normal user, than to keep it locked up
tight and have to run cdparanoia as root...
HTH,
James.
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