On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Randall Meadows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 28, 2008, at 12:36 PM, Mr. Gecko wrote: > >> Hello I have a program that finds a device by it's device number such as >> /dev/disk2s3 how would I find out the mount point/name of that device? >> If not how can I find the device number and name from a mount point? > > One brute force way would be to use NSTask to call 'df' and parse the > output; that provides you both the device names and their mount points.
A better way would be to use 'diskutil info -plist /dev/diskXsY'. An even better way would be to use DADiskCreateFromBSDName followed by DADiskCopyDescription. I think the mount point is somewhere in the description. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
