parted check option

[Thomas Roelz]

Hi all!

As far as I found out by now parted is (luckily) very
defensive with regard to doing what it is requested to do.
If something with the disk is not entirely okay it refuses
to start work. This is very good because it reduces the
chance to destroy something. Now I wonder if it would be
useful to have a check option to find out if parted _would_
execute the required action but _without_ doing it actually.
This feature might be useful for elaborate error handling
when running parted in script mode from a shell script or
such like.

I know there is a check option but according to the
documentation it does only a "simple check on the file system".
I think there are more checks built in that could be accomplished
prior to execution.

Tom

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