On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 07:23:33PM -0500, ed stuckems wrote:
> True, I actually did something similar using parted:
>
> for f in /dev/sd?; do parted -s $f print; done
So in this sort of case, I ususally put something before the command:
for f in /dev/sd?; do echo Checking $f...;parted -s $f print;done
> which lists the partition table as 'fdisk -l' does but it does so
> accurately for a larger number of partition table formats. But, I get
> your point: I should have used an option that actually produced output
> when the drive was there.
> regards,
> eds.
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