bug#50786: Reply to reply... Clearing up things.

[Michael D. Setzer II]

Perhaps I wasn't clear. The distro I am using does shows
the -l option

The GNU page that I was looking at does not include it.
https://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/parted.html

2.3 Command Line Options

When invoked from the command line, Parted supports
the following syntax:

# parted [option] device [command [argument]]

Available options and commands follow. For detailed
explanations of the use of Parted commands, see
Command explanations. Options begin with a hyphen,
commands do not:

Options:

‘-h’
‘--help’

    display a help message
‘-s’
‘--script’

    never prompt the user
‘-a alignment-type’
‘--align alignment-type’

    Set alignment for newly created partitions, valid
alignment types are: none, cylinder, minimal and optimal.
‘-v’
‘--version’

    display the version

While the Fedora 33 distro shows.
OPTIONS
       -h, --help
              displays a help message

       -l, --list
              lists partition layout on all block devices

       -m, --machine
              displays machine parseable output

       -s, --script
              never prompts for user intervention

       -v, --version
              displays the version

       -a alignment-type, --align alignment-type
              Set alignment for newly created partitions, valid
alignment types are:

              none   Use the minimum alignment allowed by
the disk type.

              cylinder
                     Align partitions to cylinders.

              minimal
                     Use minimum alignment as given by the disk
topology information. This and the opt value will use
                     layout information provided by the disk to
align the logical partition table addresses to actual
                     physical blocks on the disks.  The min value
is the minimum alignment needed to align the parti‐
                     tion properly to physical blocks, which
avoids performance degradation.

              optimal
                     Use  optimum  alignment  as given by the
disk topology information. This aligns to a multiple of
                     the physical block size in a way that
guarantees optimal performance.

Neither have anything about ---pretend-input-tty option.

The line I am currently using to do the fixing is:
        echo -e "Fix" | parted -l --pretend-input-tty

It does fix the issue, put the time command in front of it,
and it reports
real    0m17.244s
user    0m0.015s
sys     0m0.025s

If I run parted -l a second time right after it shows.
real    0m0.211s
user    0m0.014s
sys     0m0.018s

So, not clear if the 17 seconds is to doing the repair on
flash, or if the info from first run was used to speed up
second run??
data on program with Fedora 33 is:
90888 Jul 29  2020 /usr/sbin/parted

The man at end shows 2007 March 29??
parted --help doesn't seem to show any date info.
OPTIONs:
  -h, --help                      displays this help message
  -l, --list                      lists partition layout on all block
devices
  -m, --machine                   displays machine parseable
output
  -s, --script                    never prompts for user
intervention
  -v, --version                   displays the version
  -a, --align=[none|cyl|min|opt]  alignment for new
partitions

That has the -l option, but it says it lists all block devices,
so doesn't show that there might be a way to do just one.

Tried piping the Fix , but without the --pretend-input-tty it
seemed to be ignored??

Thanks again. Will see if parted is updated over time.