-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 08:02:30AM -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 07 Nov 2016 at 13:47:27 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > 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 > > > reports the desired information [partitions formatted ext?] in a > > > convenient format. > > > *HOWEVER* parted requires root privileges. That is not acceptable. > > > Suggestions? > > > > It's not parted. It's the partitions themselves (or more accurately, > > the devices via which your operating system makes the partitions > > available to user space). By default (and there are some reasons > > for it) they're not readable by everyone. They are writable by > > even less. On my box, for example: > > > > tomas@rasputin:~$ ls -al /dev/sd* > > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 Nov 7 09:06 /dev/sda > > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 Nov 7 09:06 /dev/sda1 > > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 2 Nov 7 09:06 /dev/sda2 > > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 5 Nov 7 09:06 /dev/sda5 > > > > So you'd have to be associated to the "disk" group to read those > > things and you'd have to *be* root to write. > > Are you sure? I read that as group disk having read *and* write access.
Uh -- yes, you are right, of course. > Obviously the OP seems unworried about read-access by himself or > anyone else, so world-readable on pretty much everything might > be appropriate. > > Reading anything about a filesystem without going through the > normal access methods would appear to circumvent any file > protection scheme within it, so it's no surprise to me that > all the suggestions with lsblk etc have failed. Exactly. regards - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlggif0ACgkQBcgs9XrR2kbJcgCdHYCJJion+5jcdZuULe0HQ/B6 myIAn099gufCMVEbXGrP7ko0ffX9OM8/ =I0Ki -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
