Hi, Peter Thanks for the reply. I'll check popen(). But you said I should not rely on fdisk... Why ? And should I prefer sfdisk ? Why ?
Peter Hansen wrote: > cantabile wrote: > >> Hi, I'd like to get drives and partitions (and their size too) with >> python under Linux. So far, I thought of reading /proc/partitions but >> maybe i could use fdsik also ? >> How would I do that in python ? > > > Somebody else posted a very similar question quite recently. A Google > Groups search would probably lead you to the answers pretty quickly. > (Try "partition proc sfdisk" or something like that.) > > My previous answer was to call sfdisk, using os.popen(). Others > suggested reading /proc/partitions. I doubt fdisk (if that's what you > meant) is a good idea. > > There is no pure Python solution, so far as I know, probably because > there may not be any standardized way of finding this information. > > -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
