Jeff Epler wrote: > You're not going to find a single portable "unix" way of doing this. > The format of /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab are pretty portable, but they > only list mountable/mounted partitions, not all partitions. > > In addition to the linux possibilities mentioned in another reply, there > is also /proc/partitions. Finally, if you only want to recognize > FDISK.EXE-type partitions (used by many types of Linux, though that > seems to be changing in Fedora Core 4), it shouldn't be hard to write a > Python program to read the partition table directly from the disk. The > details will be readily available online. > > Jeff
Well thanks for the responses and so quickly. I'm very new to programming and am not afraid to say it. I'll see what I can come up with. at least this is a good start. Thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
