Re: Partition information as text file?

[Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org>]

Le 26/01/2019 à 17:28, Richard Owlett a écrit :
> On 01/26/2019 09:45 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> > Le 26/01/2019 à 16:12, Richard Owlett a écrit :
> > > On 01/26/2019 08:36 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> > > > lsblk >>lsblk.txt
> > >
> > > I had misinterpreted "SIZE  size of the device" in the response
> > > to "lsblk --help". I did not equate "device" to "partition".
> > >
> > > But I still need to know how much of each partition is used/unused.
> >
> > Usually, all of a partition is used.
>
> HUH??
> Either we are using terms differently OR I'm weird OR both ;

Probably. When you write "partition", you actually mean "filesystem".
These are two distinct things. A partition is just a raw block device 
which does not know what is is used for. A filesystem is a data structure.

> I'm explicitly wish the information Gparted displays for each partition 
> of a physical device.
>
> The column titles are "Partition", "File System", "Label", "Size", 
> "Used", "Unused", and "Flags".
>
> I need all but the last as text.
>
> And Gparted has no problem displaying the information independent of 
> being mounted or not.

Yes it does. I have seen it display wrong size information about 
unmounted partitions.