[parted-devel] pointless superuser warning

[Otavio Salvador]

Anant Narayanan <anant at kix.in> writes:

>> Whats the point of such warnings? I'm sure parted cant open the block devicenode
>> anyway due to -EPERM from the kernel.
>
> That warning was specifically added to reduce the support questions from
> people who were trying to run parted in a non-root environment. I think
> it is essential to at least inform the users beforehand that the
> operations they are about to perform may actually not take place at all.

Indeed. Please take a look if you think my change includes any regressions.

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