accessing fdisk -l as user

[Patrick Drechsler]

Hi,

can I access the output of 

fdisk -l

as user on Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS?

I would like to use this information for a script without root
privileges. The user running this script is sudo user.

According to the man page of fdisk, the -l option is:

,----
| -l List the partition tables for the specified devices and then exit.
| If no devices are given, those mentioned in /proc/partitions (if that
| exists) are used.
`----

The file /proc/partitions is empty:

,----
| # ls -al /proc/partitions
| -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2008-08-14 03:23 /proc/partitions
`----

Should this file be created automatically during boot time?

Thankful for any pointers,

Patrick