partition info in perl without root access

[Peter L. Peres]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Madison Kelly wrote:

> 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!

cat /proc/partitions

Peter

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