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}' -- Felipe Salvador