Perhaps I wasn't clear. The distro I am using does shows
the -l option
The GNU page that I was looking at does not include it.
https://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/parted.html
2.3 Command Line Options
When invoked from the command line, Parted supports
the following syntax:
# parted [option] device [command [argument]]
Available options and commands follow. For detailed
explanations of the use of Parted commands, see
Command explanations. Options begin with a hyphen,
commands do not:
Options:
‘-h’
‘--help’
display a help message
‘-s’
‘--script’
never prompt the user
‘-a alignment-type’
‘--align alignment-type’
Set alignment for newly created partitions, valid
alignment types are: none, cylinder, minimal and optimal.
‘-v’
‘--version’
display the version
While the Fedora 33 distro shows.
OPTIONS
-h, --help
displays a help message
-l, --list
lists partition layout on all block devices
-m, --machine
displays machine parseable output
-s, --script
never prompts for user intervention
-v, --version
displays the version
-a alignment-type, --align alignment-type
Set alignment for newly created partitions, valid
alignment types are:
none Use the minimum alignment allowed by
the disk type.
cylinder
Align partitions to cylinders.
minimal
Use minimum alignment as given by the disk
topology information. This and the opt value will use
layout information provided by the disk to
align the logical partition table addresses to actual
physical blocks on the disks. The min value
is the minimum alignment needed to align the parti‐
tion properly to physical blocks, which
avoids performance degradation.
optimal
Use optimum alignment as given by the
disk topology information. This aligns to a multiple of
the physical block size in a way that
guarantees optimal performance.
Neither have anything about ---pretend-input-tty option.
The line I am currently using to do the fixing is:
echo -e "Fix" | parted -l --pretend-input-tty
It does fix the issue, put the time command in front of it,
and it reports
real 0m17.244s
user 0m0.015s
sys 0m0.025s
If I run parted -l a second time right after it shows.
real 0m0.211s
user 0m0.014s
sys 0m0.018s
So, not clear if the 17 seconds is to doing the repair on
flash, or if the info from first run was used to speed up
second run??
data on program with Fedora 33 is:
90888 Jul 29 2020 /usr/sbin/parted
The man at end shows 2007 March 29??
parted --help doesn't seem to show any date info.
OPTIONs:
-h, --help displays this help message
-l, --list lists partition layout on all block
devices
-m, --machine displays machine parseable
output
-s, --script never prompts for user
intervention
-v, --version displays the version
-a, --align=[none|cyl|min|opt] alignment for new
partitions
That has the -l option, but it says it lists all block devices,
so doesn't show that there might be a way to do just one.
Tried piping the Fix , but without the --pretend-input-tty it
seemed to be ignored??
Thanks again. Will see if parted is updated over time.
