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Re: Names of drives (was Re: A little help for a Mac newbie? :-))

Hi Moises,

The unix command "mount" will tell you about the mounted OS X drives.
Another choice is "df -lh", which shows only the real local drives.
Poking around in the man pages may turn up something slicker.

Once you get the list down to what you want (with maybe a sed script to
trim out the trash), exec the command and read the output from the
command into an appropriate java container.

Hope this provides and alternative that might be easier.

Travis

--On Friday, April 30, 2004 1:03 PM -0400 Moises Lejter
<email@hidden> wrote:

> At 12:12 PM 4/30/2004, email@hidden wrote:
>
>>| While I have your attention :-) - would anyone also happen to know
>>| how a Java app can get a list of all drive names currently known
>>| to MacOSX? I can look in /Volumes for a list of names - but it
>>| does not include the name for the system drive (which happens to be
>>| the one I need). And java.io.File.listRoots() just returns "/" -
>>| which is true, but not what I need...
>>
>> You're not clear here. You say that you want a list of all the
>> volumes. But you also say that the system drive is the one you
>> need, implying that you don't actually need the others, but then go
>> on to reject listRoot() which returns what you say you need. Again,
>> explanation of what it is you're trying to accomplish would be
>> helpful.
>
> OK. Acrobat gives me a pathname "/A/B/C". On MacOSX, it looks like
> A is always the disk name, while /B/C is a pathname within that disk.
> My problem is that I cannot use what I get directly - /A/B/C does
> not exist on the filesystem. I have to use /B/C (if A is the book
> disk)
> or I guess /Volumes/A/B/C otherwise. I was hoping to be able to tell
> which of the two was appropriate, rather than try one, then the other.
> And yes, I could always try one, then the other.
>
> listRoot() does not seem to be what I want/need. It only returns
> "/" - which is not the name of a disk, boot or otherwise.
> (Why did you say that listRoot() returns what I said I needed?)
>
> Moises
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 >Names of drives (was Re: A little help for a Mac newbie? :-)) (From: Moises Lejter <email@hidden>)



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