[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote: > Max <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> BWill wrote: >> >> > oh, I wasn't expecting a single solution for both platforms, just some >> > good solutions >> > >> > thanks >> >> Are you aware that this idea is somewhat foreign to Linux? (Maybe you >> are and want to do it anyway?) Linux puts the whole file system >> (including mounted iPods, ISOs and NTFS drives) in one hierarchy. > > Yes, but you may still want to distinguish (because, for example, hard > linking doesn't work across filesystems, and mv is not atomic then).
Why not use os.stat? > Running a df command is a good simple way to find out what drives are > mounted to what mountpoints -- the mount command is an alternative, but > its output may be slightly harder to parse than df's. Executing df may be expensive if it needs to read some slow file systems. Reading /etc/mtab is not difficult and much faster. Florian -- Das toitsche Usenet ist die Wiederaufführung des Dreißigjährigen Krieges mit den Mitteln einer Talkshow. [Alexander Bartolich in dcpu] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
