On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:41:48 +0300, Anssi Saari wrote: >>> I'm looking for a possibility to access the partiton inforamtion of a >>> hard disk of my computer from within a python program. >> >> Have you considered parsing /proc/partitions? > > One could also just read the partition table directly, it's on the > first sector usually. (Assuming a PC without a GUID partition > table...) The partition table is just 64 bytes at offset 446 into the > sector. In unixlikes you can just open the disk with file.open()... > Then again, unixlikes other than Linux have somewhat different ideas > about partitioning...
Apart from the portability issues, you usually need elevated privileges to read the disk directly, while /proc/partitions is normally readable by anyone. OTOH, many of the tasks for which partition information is necessary would require root privilege anyhow. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
