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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.