Finding unpartitioned space using GNU Parted

[vikram]

Hi,

I have been using cfdisk -P s /device_name  to find the unpartitioned space in my hard disks. However this doesn't always work. Sometimes I end up with a FATAL_ERROR. I know GParted would do the job, but i am hoping for a command line based solution.

Is there a way i could use parted to look up unpartitioned space on my hard disk? Google hasn't been of much help so far.

I am trying this on a Debian (Lenny) system - parted 1.8.8

Thanks,
Vikram Nair