Re: parted is ALMOST suitable

[Darac Marjal]

On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 06:11:50AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:

I need to identify file system on all partitions of my hard drive whether mounted or not.

   parted /dev/sda print | grep ext | grep -v exte

*HOWEVER* parted requires root privileges. That is not acceptable.
Suggestions?

reports the desired information [partitions formatted ext?] in a convenient format.

$ lsblk -l|awk 'NR==1||/part/'

(or just "|grep part" if you don't care about seeing the header :)

parted probably wants root privileges because it is, by nature a PARTition EDitor. Try, instead, "lsblk" (in package util-linux), which will LiSt BLocK devices. I'm not immediately sure how to get it to show ONLY partitions, but the following seems to work:

TIA

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