Florian Diesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > >> 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?
Each os.stat call gives you information about one file (or directory); it may be simpler and faster to get the information "in bulk" once and for all. > > 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. That's what the -n flag is for, if you're worried about that (although I believe it may not be available on all systems) -- executing mount is the alternative (just putting up with some parsing difficulties depending, e.g., on what automounters may be doing). > Reading /etc/mtab is not difficult and much faster $ cat /etc/mtab cat: /etc/mtab: No such file or directory Oops! BSD systems don't have /etc/mtab... so, if you choose to get your info by reading it, you've just needlessly destroyed your program's compatibility with a large portion of the Unix-y universe. popen a mount or df, and information will be easier to extract portably. Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
