Re: parted is ALMOST suitable

[Felipe Salvador <felipe.salvador@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 06:37:53AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 11/7/2016 6:20 AM, Felipe Salvador wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 06:11:50AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > > *HOWEVER* parted requires root privileges. That is not acceptable.
> > > Suggestions?
> > > TIA
> > 
> > lsblk -fr ?
> > 
> 
> Debian is perverse ;{
> man page suggested good things.
> However when run as other than root, there is a column heading "FSTYPE".

> It is blank for all partitions.
> They are present when run as root.
> Thanks for trying.

I don't see this behaviour

~$ lsblk -fr
NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID MOUNTPOINT
sda
sda1 ext2  ... /boot
sda2 ext4  ... /
sda3 ext2  ... /tmp
etc etc etc

or

file -s /dev/sda{1..5} | awk '{print $5}'



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Felipe Salvador