Is there a way to get the status of a hard drive in debian linux without admin rights in python?
What I have done (in shell, not python):
1. I installed hdparm via shell:
sudo apt-get install hdparm
2. In the shell I can type now:
sudo /sbin/hdparm -C /dev/disk/by-label/harddrive1
3. The output is:
/dev/disk/by-label/harddrive1:
drive state is: standby
I want to grep the state like "drive state is: standby" or "drive state is: active/idle". With bash and admin rights it is very easy. But I want to read the device state (standby, active/idle) in python without admin rights.
Is there a way to do this in python 3 without admin rights? It does not need to be hdparm.