On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 12:21:36PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, 21 May 2015 13:07:35 +0200 Karel Zak wrote: > > > The option '-s' does not affect return code ... we have information > > about all (including empty) partitions! > > Ok, I see. Sounds like the proposed patch is appropriate then. > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=12;filename=0001-Fix-by-forcing-fs-type-to-not-detected-if-not-named.patch;att=1;bug=784709 > > > Note that my recommendation is to use lsblk, for example: > > That has the same issue: > > $ sudo lsblk --noheading --output FSTYPE /dev/sda2 ; echo $? > > 0 Why do you want rely on return code? It is not error when FS type is undefined/unknown. All you need is to check result. FSTYPE=$(lsblk --nodeps --noheading --output FSTYPE /dev/sda2) [ -n "$FSTYPE" ] && echo $FSTYPE > I think for our purposes we would need --nodeps too. Yes. Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html