This shouldn't use logname to determine ZUSER

[seanicus64]

logname tells you the user who originally opened the terminal, not the actual current user.

For example, the following user is a user named "fred" I "su'd" to under "sean". I also specified the user with the -u flag. But it still creates a vmdk in /home/sean.

fred@debian:~$ sudo vzvol -s 10m -t virtualbox -v virttest5 -u fred
creating a vzol of size
10m
Testing to ensure zvol was created
/dev/zd928
DIE
Creating /home/sean/VBoxdisks/virttest5.vmdk
RAW host disk access VMDK file /home/sean/VBoxdisks/virttest5.vmdk created successfully.
Please use /home/sean/VBoxdisks/virttest5.vmdk as your VM Disk
fred@debian:~$ logname
sean

[RainbowHackerHorse]

$logname was the best way I could come up with to resolve the matter for most use case scenarios.

However, -u SHOULD be overwriting it regardless.

Can you run the command again after adding
set -x under the shebang, and paste the output here?

[RainbowHackerHorse]

/dev/zd928
DIE

This is indicative of a further issue, so the output will also help me resolve another bug.

[adriaandegroot]

Under X11 (Plasma started from SDDM) on 11.2-STABLE, logname prints root when run from xterm or konsole. ssh'ing to localhost gets me the expected (not-root) username. So my vmdk's get created in /root instead of my own home dir. (Maybe running vzvol from a graphical environment on FreeBSD isn't one of your common use-cases, though)

[RainbowHackerHorse]

@adriaandegroot Definitely not a common use-case.
Under 11.2-RELEASE, in an LXDE environment, however, this issue isn't present. This leads me to believe that KDE is fucking something up.

@seanicus64 May I have that debug output please?