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Re: parted is ALMOST suitable



On 11/7/2016 8:19 AM, Felipe Salvador wrote:
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}'

richard@full-jessier:~$ lsblk -fr
NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID MOUNTPOINT
sda
sda1
sda2
sda5
sda6
sda7
sda8    [SWAP]
sda9    /
sda10
sda11
sda12
sdb
sdb1
sr0
richard@full-jessier:~$ su
Password:
root@full-jessier:/home/richard# lsblk -fr
NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID MOUNTPOINT
sda
sda1 ntfs Main ...
sda2
sda5 ntfs Projects ...
sda6 ntfs F_drive ...
sda7 ntfs OldMachine ...
sda8 swap  ...
sda9 ext4 full-jessie ...
sda10 ext2 jessie-dvds ...
sda11 ext2 myrepo ...
sda12 ext2 poolbak ...

I am using Debian 8.6.0 with MATE DE installed from purchased set of DVD's. For another project I had reason to verify the MD5SUMS of DVD1 and DVD2.



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