On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:22:08AM -0400, Maurizio Ungaro wrote: > My point was more philosophical: I like to have control on whats > installed/activated.... that's one of the Linux features I always liked. You can still configure this through the /etc/sysconfig/selinux file for persistent change, or make SELinux permissive using 'setenforce 0', or boot with 'selinux=0', or... That configurability all remains. > Things are generally handled with labels now, which are more flexible > and don't rely on easily-broken device names like /dev/sda. Also, > there's a /dev/disk/* area you can use which I find is really helpful > when I'm looking for a specific disk. I don't have to know whether > it's sda, sdb, sdf... which is good, especially now that 187-in-1 > media readers (or whatever it's up to today) are so popular! > > Ok maybe I'm missing something. If I look at /dev/disk, I would expect > that every disk or partition to be listed in every subdirectory there: > by-id, by-label. > I'd also expect that every entry there is listed in fdisk -l. Am I wrong? I don't know how fdisk behavior conforms to modern specs. I think most people rely on parted nowadays. > Hm, that's interesting, because I have an external hard drive on a > machine here that does sleep just like it should when unused. So it's > not a system wide problem. Do you have any processes running which > might be using the drive? > > Ok that means it's me. I'm positive I don't have processes running on it > though. I have to unplug it. > > thanks for the quick, and knowledgeable, response. Sorry I don't have them more often, or that they're incomplete sometimes. :-) -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
