Re: parted is ALMOST suitable

[Greg Wooledge]

On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 08:18:28AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Evidently not a solution. Added myself to both "disk" and "root" 
> groups.
> Had no effect when attempting to run either lsblk or parted.

Is there a reason you can't use sudo?

Sample output on my system at work:

$ lsblk -f
NAME   FSTYPE LABEL UUID MOUNTPOINT
sda                      
|-sda1                   
|-sda2                   /
`-sda3                   [SWAP]
sr0                      

$ sudo lsblk -f
[sudo] password for wooledg: 
NAME   FSTYPE LABEL   UUID                                 MOUNTPOINT
sda                                                        
|-sda1 ntfs   Windows FE0EDCF30EDCA5C5                     
|-sda2 ext4           1a20ffb7-897c-4373-84c1-14089a6deab8 /
`-sda3 swap           b8d67062-8262-476d-9370-8166f7572fd3 [SWAP]
sr0                                                        

You can even configure sudo not to prompt you for a password.
Certain operations on a Linux system simply require root privileges,
and your insistence on "not having to be root" is not rational.