On Mon 07 Nov 2016 at 18:42:37 +0100, Felipe Salvador wrote: > On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 04:09:24PM +0000, Brian wrote: > > > > I get the same as you on Debian 8.6. On unstable the command 'lsblk -f' > > shows all the fields populated. I wonder what Felipe Salvador is using? > > ~$ apt-show-versions util-linux > util-linux:amd64/testing 2.28.2-1 uptodate > > ~$ cat /etc/debian_version > stretch/sid
This is my situation too. 'lsblk -f' works. If not working on Jessie is thought to be a bug it is hardly worth reporting to the BTS except as a wishlist bug. It is unlikely to be fixed for Jessie. Richard Owlett and others are fortunately left with two methods to identify a file system on a mounted or unmounted partition as a user. Certain operations on a Linux system may require root privileges; getting this information is not one of them. In fact, the information is also available in /run/udev and /run/blkid; so there is another two sources. -- Brian.