partition info in perl without root access

[Madison Kelly]

Hi all,

   I am trying to find a way in perl as a regular user to get the same 
type of information as I get when I run 'fdisk -l' as root. Currently I 
have put 'fdisk' in my '/etc/sudoers' file and use sudo to get the data. 
This obviously is not ideal though because 'fdisk' has many potentially 
dangerous uses than simple partition information gathering.

   Does anyone know of a way that I can get information like which 
partitions are online but NOT mounted (probably most important), how 
much space is used and available on a given partition and so forth? Thanks!

Madison
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