Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-programming (96 mails)

[James Oakley <joakley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Thursday 13 March 2003 01:34 pm, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> All,
>
> I'm going to do some work on rdiff-backup.  It's written in Python.  (I'm a
> python newbie)
>
> I want to be able to detect the filesystem type of the target directory. 
> (i.e. ext2/xfs/reiser/NTFS/FAT etc.).
>
> Is there a good way to get that info?  It would be really nice if the
> method worked in Linux and Win32, but that maybe too much to hope for.

This only works in Linux. I know little of Windows, unfortunately:

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import os, stat

def getFSType(filename):
    """
    Returns the fstype of the volume containg 'filename', which should be the
    full path to the file
    """
    # Build dict of filesystems and use the device number as the key
    devices = {}
    f = open('/proc/mounts')
    for line in f.readlines():
        info = line.split()
        devnum = os.stat(info[1])[stat.ST_DEV]
        devices[devnum] = info[2]
    f.close()

    # Find out which one contains 'filename' and return the fstype
    return devices[os.stat(filename)[stat.ST_DEV]]
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If you want to know more about how that works, check out the documentation for 
the 'stat' module.

- -- 
James Oakley
Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd.
joakley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.solutioninc.com
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