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Started by Null and Void September 23, 2001 05:20 PM

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Null and Void

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September 23, 2001 05:20 PM

Does anyone know a method of enumerating available Floppy and CDROM (SCSI and IDE) drives? Is there a way to do it for only mounted devices and/or all devices regardless of whether or not they''re mounted? Is there a way to check if it''s mounted (for the second option in the last question)? Thanks in advance

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Null and Void

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September 23, 2001 06:32 PM

Well, I guess I''ll just parse /etc/fstab by hand, but I still need a way to test if the devices are already mounted.

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Dactylos

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September 23, 2001 06:37 PM

You could either read /proc/mounts if the system supports the proc filesystem, or you could spawn 'df' and parse its output to see which devices are mounted. Those are the only ways I can think of, but then again; I don't know much about programming under linux