On Tue, 29 Jan 2019, Richard Owlett wrote: > Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 10:22:42 > From: Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Partition information as text file? > Resent-Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 15:23:04 +0000 (UTC) > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > On 01/29/2019 08:37 AM, to...@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§ion=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 > clipit may be able to snag this information for you then dump it to a text file for you. Not as elegant as a script though.
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