On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 01:38:21PM +0100, Thomas BÃchler wrote:
> > The best way to detect empty device is probably:
> >
> > if test -z "$(blkid -o udev -p $device -s TYPE -s PTTYPE)"; then
> > echo "nothing on the device"
> > fi
> >
> > this works in all cases and all util-linux blkid(8) versions.
>
> This will still return nothing in case of ambivalent results, right? Or
> would is print an ID_FS_AMBIVALENT line?
It will print ID_FS_AMBIVALENT.
> However, with the changes queued up for 2.19, my method of using 'blkid
> -p' should do exactly what I want (correct me if I am wrong here).
Yep, seems correct to me.
Karel
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