Why does running "df" command with a specific device specified (for example, "df -l /dev/sda1") resulted in a "Permission denied" message for regular users in Rhel 5.4 ?

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Issue

  • Why does running "df" command with a specific device specified (for example, "df -l /dev/sda1") resulted in a "Permission denied" message for regular users in Rhel 5.4 ?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4
  • coreutils-5.97-23.el5-x86_64

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