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From: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>
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To: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Is it possible to run gpart and newfs on file without root access
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On 21.01.2013 21:48, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
>>>   Yes, permissions fixup needs root access in any case, but it
>>> could be done on first boot of created image, on target device, with
>>> some rc kung-foo!
>>
>> # chmod g+rw /dev/mdctl
>> # chmod g+rw /dev/geom.ctl
>>
>> And now the operators group can do what you want.
> 
> Do the newly created devfs nodes for the md(4) and partitions on md(4)
> somehow get g+rw afterwards ? I think the write access is needed to
> /dev/mdN*.

Yes, there is some devfs foo needed. But the easiest way is sudo :)

-- 
WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov