On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 17:05 +0100, Gabor Urban wrote: > OK, you are right... Problem was not precise enough. I need to process > CDs to create a list. Does it ring a bell for you? > > Thanks
Hello,
The method below will work on linux systems (it uses dbus to communicate
with HAL). You'll maybe have to expand the filter on line 37, but I'm
not sure...
hth,
Dieter
#!/usr/bin/env python
import dbus
def discover():
disks = []
volumes = []
# get a connection to the system bus
bus = dbus.SystemBus ()
# get a HAL object and an interface to HAL to make function calls
hal_obj = bus.get_object ('org.freedesktop.Hal',
'/org/freedesktop/Hal/Manager')
hal = dbus.Interface (hal_obj, 'org.freedesktop.Hal.Manager')
# find all devices that have the capability 'volume'
udis = hal.FindDeviceByCapability('volume')
for udi in udis:
# get volume info
dev_obj = bus.get_object('org.freedesktop.Hal', udi)
dev = dbus.Interface(dev_obj, 'org.freedesktop.Hal.Device')
volume = str(dev.GetProperty('block.device'))
volume_label = str(dev.GetProperty('volume.label'))
volume_mount_point = str(dev.GetProperty('volume.mount_point'))
volume_fstype = str(dev.GetProperty('volume.fstype'))
# get storage info
parent_udi = dev.GetProperty('info.parent')
dev_obj = bus.get_object('org.freedesktop.Hal', parent_udi)
dev = dbus.Interface(dev_obj, 'org.freedesktop.Hal.Device')
storage = str(dev.GetProperty('block.device'))
storage_product = str(dev.GetProperty('info.product'))
# filter out hard disks
if dev.GetProperty('storage.drive_type') == 'disk':
continue
# store disk
if not storage in disks:
disks.append(storage)
# store volume
volumes.append((storage,
volume,
volume_label,
volume_mount_point,
volume_fstype))
return disks, volumes
if __name__ == '__main__':
disks, volumes = discover()
for disk in disks:
print 'found disk', disk
for volume in volumes:
if volume[0] == disk:
print ' with volume', volume[1]
print ' label', volume[2]
print ' mount point is', volume[3]
print ' fstype is', volume[4]
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