I don't think that Ubuntu or the fdisk maintainers are in a position to change this; low level command line tools like fdisk are the sort of thing that are depended upon by other applications so there is a lot of resistence to changing their output.
>From the fdisk man page: " -l List the partition tables for the specified devices and then exit. If no devices are given, those mentioned in /proc/partitions (if that exists) are used." It could probably mention that disks for which you do not have read permission will be silently ignored. ** Summary changed: - fdisk -l should give output + fdisk -l as normal user should give output -- fdisk -l as normal user should give output https://launchpad.net/bugs/73811 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
