For a long time, I have seen lines like the above when updating grub2.
There used to be only one occurrence; now there are several. Needless to say, /dev/sde is not shown by the "df" command.
There is such a device:
ll /dev/sde
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 64 Apr 26 18:43 /dev/sde
It is only a nuisance message, but I would like to know why it is there
at all. I would have expected that if there was no such medium, it
would have been ignored.
TIA,
Doug.
For a long time, I have seen lines like the above when updating grub2.
There used to be only one occurrence; now there are several. Needless to
say, /dev/sde is not shown by the "df" command.
There is such a device:
ll /dev/sde
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 64 Apr 26 18:43 /dev/sde
It is only a nuisance message, but I would like to know why it is there
at all.
I would have expected that if there was no such medium, it
would have been ignored.
On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 19:46:31 +1000, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
For a long time, I have seen lines like the above when updating grub2.
There used to be only one occurrence; now there are several. Needless to
say, /dev/sde is not shown by the "df" command.
There is such a device:
ll /dev/sde
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 64 Apr 26 18:43 /dev/sde
It is only a nuisance message, but I would like to know why it is there
at all. I would have expected that if there was no such medium, it
would have been ignored.
TIA,
Doug.
brw-rw---- 1 root disk
Owner is root and user is disk, so this is read-write only for root
and disk appearing in /etc/passwd and /etc/group. If an ordinary user,
you would not see it or be able to access it.
If sde were a directory, absence of the execute bit would mean it
could not be searched, but I am not sure this matters as mounting
sde could change that.
Custom settings in group and passwd could change things, of course.
Cheers!
jim b.
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