non sudo parted -l equivalent

[Buck Fankers]

I hope this is OK forum for this somehow OT subject.

This command:

sudo parted -l | grep "Partition Table: "

returns type of partition table 'msdos' or 'gpt'. Is there equivalent command I can use that does not need 'sudo' privileged rights?

I would like to use it in my script with a combination with:

test -d /sys/firmware/efi && echo UEFI || echo BIOS

to determine if OS installation matches hardware (BIOS+msdos or UEFI+gpt)

And there is just bad karma if your code is requesting a password ;-)

[dolphin_oracle]

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udevadm info /dev/sda

give all sort of stuff, including partition table type for block devices.

[oops]

Or:

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inxi -Dxxx | grep scheme

[fehlix]

This command:

sudo parted -l | grep "Partition Table: "

returns type of partition table 'msdos' or 'gpt'. Is there equivalent command I can use that does not need 'sudo' privileged rights?

This:

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udevadm info -q property /dev/sda | sed -n s/ID_PART_TABLE_TYPE=//p

would print either gpt or dos for /dev/sda .

[Buck Fankers]

This:

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udevadm info -q property /dev/sda | sed -n s/ID_PART_TABLE_TYPE=//p

would print either gpt or dos for /dev/sda .

Perfect, thank you very much!

[Buck Fankers]

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udevadm info /dev/sda

give all sort of stuff, including partition table type for block devices.

For some reason I initially only saw one answer.
Will try yours also & thanks

[Buck Fankers]

Or:

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inxi -Dxxx | grep scheme

Oh, it's also there?
Thanks!

[oops]

Or:

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inxi -Dxxx | grep scheme

Oh, it's also there?
Thanks!

Hi,
Yes,here: GPT - UEFI

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$ inxi -Dxxx | grep scheme | sed '/.*scheme:/ s/.*scheme:\ //g'
GPT 

[Buck Fankers]

This Inxi is really nicely evolving and growing it has everything! :-)

[oops]

This Inxi is really nicely evolving and growing it has everything! :-)

Right, almost.