Re: Partition information as text file?

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>]

On 01/29/2019 08:37 AM, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 08:30:13AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> > I assume "fsck.dos" is a typo as
> > [https://dyn.manpages.debian.org/jump?suite=stretch&binarypkg=dosfstools&section=8&language=en&q=fsck.dos]
> >      yields
> > "Sorry, the manpage “fsck.dos” was not found!"
>
> You have the manpages on your box, hopefully. Try "man -k fsck", and you'll get:
> [snip sample output]

I avoid using "man" as I find the HTML of online pages friendlier. Also 
in the past I was reading man pages more frequently to chose whether or 
not to install a particular package than to explore what an installed 
package could do for me.

I didn't know of the "-k" option. I haven't come across an equivalent 
function online. I may not use "man" to read, but "man -k" should be 
very useful for deciding which online pages I wish to read.

> So I'd try fsck.fat or similar (/if/ it has to be fat, that is)
>
> > Thanks for trying.
>
> That's how we advance, after all :)
>
> > What bugs me is Gparted [though it does not output text]  reports
> > used/unused space on each partition/file system.
>
> I can't grok this one: shouldn't gparted report on it? Or you don't
> expect the free space to be there?

Gparted displays the desired data in the GUI, but I see no way to get 
that information as a text stream. I need a text file for my application.

Thanks