On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Peter Taps <ptr...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I am working on an application that requires me to enumerate disks and > present their information to the user. > > Disks can be enumerated using "format" command. However, I am looking for a > programmatic way to do it. I would like to avoid running "format" process and > parsing the returned output. > > I would appreciate it if you could point me in the right direction for sample > 'C' language code. > > Our application is being built in Java. Any pointer to JNA or JNI samples > would be much appreciated.
Simplest way is to walk through the kstats. This allows you to reproduce 'iostat -E', which may be good enough. (This falls down in two ways: first, it doesn't identify removable media - I would love to be able to identify those accurately, preferably without needing any extra privilege. Second, it doesn't handle multipathed devices - but then, neither does format. And while it can enumerate disks, getting the partition layout [ie. prtvtoc] can't be done with kstats.) To get at kstats from java, allow me to blow my own trumpet: http://www.petertribble.co.uk/Solaris/jkstat.html or, for an application which already does a disk enumeration the way I described: http://www.petertribble.co.uk/Solaris/solview.html If any of those are useful, feel free to bug me for advice or help; if they aren't then also let me know as I'm trying to solve a similar problem. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list opensolaris-code@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
