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Re: parted is ALMOST suitable



On Wed 09 Nov 2016 at 08:10:37 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:

> On 11/9/2016 4:27 AM, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> >[*SNIP*]
> >
> >BTW it's very easy to fool the application itself (and this might be
> >a perverse "solution" to Richard's problem). Just run gparted under
> >fakeroot. It won't convey you read/write permissions you don't have,
> >but it will fool gparted to think it's running as root:
> 
> That may do the trick. Especially as what I wanted was descriptive
> information concerning the physical partition and wanted it displayed in a
> convenient format. I was explicitly avoiding operations requiring root
> privileges to avoid "shooting self in foot".

'fakeroot gparted' will not do the trick for you. It is a dead end
solution for what you want.

-- 
Brian.


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