On Wed 09 Nov 2016 at 08:10:37 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 11/9/2016 4:27 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >[*SNIP*] > > > >BTW it's very easy to fool the application itself (and this might be > >a perverse "solution" to Richard's problem). Just run gparted under > >fakeroot. It won't convey you read/write permissions you don't have, > >but it will fool gparted to think it's running as root: > > That may do the trick. Especially as what I wanted was descriptive > information concerning the physical partition and wanted it displayed in a > convenient format. I was explicitly avoiding operations requiring root > privileges to avoid "shooting self in foot".
'fakeroot gparted' will not do the trick for you. It is a dead end solution for what you want. -- Brian.
