userland|unprivileged file system handling tools

[Doug Barton]

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, diz at linuxpowered.com wrote:

> hi,
>
> Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > We seem to lack tools that allow the generation/handling of file
> > system images without root privs. The 'standard techniques' used
> > to build the bootable floppies rely on vnconfig/mdconfig, disklabel,
> > fsck and mknod which all must run as root.
> >
>
> As far as -current goes, mknod is not anything worth mentioning because of
> devfs.

I disagree with this assessment. mknod is still useful in -current, for
instance in a chroot setup where you only need one or two devices.

Doug

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