On 26 Apr 2005 11:29:26 -0700, Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello: > > I'm running python under cygwin and need to find the drive letter. > Cygwin has a way of calling my drives by a name relative to the Cygwin > directory, so I get things like /home/user rather than > /cygdrive/g/cygwin/home/usr, etc. How can I find the letter of the > drive, or in the above example, the letter 'g'?
Generally, drive N gets mapped to /cygdrive/n/ but you could call the 'mount' command and parse the output to see what drive letter got assigned to a given path. On my system, mount returns: $ mount C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts type system (binmode) C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode) C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode) C:\cygwin on / type system (binmode) c: on /cygdrive/c type user (binmode,noumount) d: on /cygdrive/d type user (binmode,noumount) g: on /cygdrive/g type user (binmode,noumount) x: on /cygdrive/x type user (binmode,noumount) z: on /cygdrive/z type user (binmode,noumount) > My program needs to run on an external media that comes with Cygwin on > it. I have no control over what drive is assigned to that media, but > for some reason, I do need to know the letter. Why? -- Kristian kristian.zoerhoff(AT)gmail.com zoerhoff(AT)freeshell.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
