bilibop-udev ------------ This package only provides a udev rules file to be applied on operating systems running from external media (USB stick, USB HDD, FireWire, Flash Memory stick). It is based on bilibop-common shell functions with the same limitations; read the bilibop-common documentation for details. The running system being hosted on a removable device, the common udev rules (91-permissions.rules) will set it as owned by the 'floppy' group, allowing any member of this group to damage it, even by mistake, with at least one of the following commands: shred -zn0 /dev/sdb cat /dev/zero >/dev/sdb dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb So the bilibop-udev rule fixes the disk hosting the operating system and all its partitions as owned by the 'disk' group, as it was an internal disk. Additionally, it creates a symlink (by default /dev/bilibop) to the node of the disk hosting the system, making easy to find the boot device of a multilayered block devices root filesystem; for example, on a Debian LiveUSB with the fromiso=* boot method: disk > partition > file.iso > loop > file.squashfs > loop > union ro-branch > unionfs (/) NOTE: there is currently no support for eSATA drives. -- bilibop project Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:33:20 +0200 -- bilibop project Tue, 14 Jul 2015 13:30:03 +0000