Re: How to get the total size of a local hard disk?
willgun wrote: > >Unfortunately,I'm on win32. >Actually,I prefer a cross-platform method. Why do you need this? This kind of information is not very useful in a cross-platform application. -- Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: cross platform method Re: How to get the total size of a local hard disk?
Tim Harig wrote: > > This is a joke. Do not take it seriously. I do not actually suggest > anybody use this method to measure the size of their drive. I do not take any > responsibility for any damages incurred by using this method. I will laugh > at you if you do. Offer not valid in AK, HI, Puero Rico, or U.S Virgin > Ilands. > Like most jokes it's not really funny if you have to explain it. But I appreciate that you're worried that anyone who would actually follow the advice would also probably be rabidly litigious even if they were one of those rare-breed of living brain-donors. n -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
How to get the total size of a local hard disk?
Hi,everyone! How to get the total size of a local hard disk? I mean total size,not free space. Thanks in advance! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
cross platform method Re: How to get the total size of a local hard disk?
On 2009-06-15, Tim Golden wrote: > These kind of things tend to be fairly platform specific. There is however a way to do it in a cross platform manner which will return an appoximation of the available space. 1. delete all of the files (and folders) on the partition that you want to test. 2. create a file as large as the drive will permit. 3. repeat two with as many files as the drive will allow to be written. This needs to be done on filesystems with file size limits (ie, FAT file systems will only allow files as large as 4G). 4. Once all the files have been written, calculate the total size of all of the files to get your answer. This method is a little descructive and slow; but, it should work on all platforms. This is a joke. Do not take it seriously. I do not actually suggest anybody use this method to measure the size of their drive. I do not take any responsibility for any damages incurred by using this method. I will laugh at you if you do. Offer not valid in AK, HI, Puero Rico, or U.S Virgin Ilands. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How to get the total size of a local hard disk?
Unfortunately,I'm on win32. Actually,I prefer a cross-platform method. Thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How to get the total size of a local hard disk?
willgun wrote: Unfortunately,I'm on win32. Actually,I prefer a cross-platform method. Thanks. These kind of things tend to be fairly platform specific. Obviously, nothing's stopping anyone writing a module which does some platform-sniffing and conditional imports and provides a consistent interface. Far as I know, though, there's no such thing for Python at the mo. Think of it as a market opportunity! TJG -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How to get the total size of a local hard disk?
Paul Boddie wrote: On 15 Jun, 14:58, willgun wrote: How to get the total size of a local hard disk? I mean total size,not free space. Which platform are you using? On a Linux-based system you might look at the contents of /proc/partitions and then, presumably with Python, parse the contents to yield a number of blocks for the hard disk in question. This quantity would then be converted into a more familiar measure. One might expect something like PSI to support this kind of activity... http://bitbucket.org/chrismiles/psi/ ...but I think it only really provides process-related information. On Windows, WMI is nearly always the answer to these kind of things (altho' since WMI is nearly always a shell around other APIs there's usually some other way). http://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi_cookbook.html#percentage_free TJG -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How to get the total size of a local hard disk?
On 15 Jun, 14:58, willgun wrote: > > How to get the total size of a local hard disk? > I mean total size,not free space. Which platform are you using? On a Linux-based system you might look at the contents of /proc/partitions and then, presumably with Python, parse the contents to yield a number of blocks for the hard disk in question. This quantity would then be converted into a more familiar measure. One might expect something like PSI to support this kind of activity... http://bitbucket.org/chrismiles/psi/ ...but I think it only really provides process-related information. Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
