On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 13:48, Martin Gregorie <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> (Probably no partitions that can be mounted though, since he itendes to access the >> disk, not a filesystem on top if it?) >> > I'd be quite surprised if a program running in normal user space, i.e. > not as root, can do that. > Possibly after some 'sudo chmod oga+w /dev/sda' kind of commands? Gert