-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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: - --------cut---------- 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]] - ------------cut--------- If you want to know more about how that works, check out the documentation for the 'stat' module. - -- James Oakley Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd. joakley@solutioninc.com http://www.solutioninc.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+cNss+FOexA3koIgRAsC+AJ9NNUm54b0Mt8jmXXGo9kUSdUcCDQCgt7Lm 1d+V3Qagr3fYS2yGp5yCeR8= =1PmL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----