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Re: Volume status
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Re: Volume status


  • Subject: Re: Volume status
  • From: Graff <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 14:41:04 -0400

On Oct 1, 2004, at 1:39 PM, Adam K. Wuellner wrote:


On Oct 1, 2004, at 11:35 AM, Adam K. Wuellner wrote:

I used 'properties of disk 3' in a Finder tell block to get the following information:
{<snip>}


As you can see, you can determine the owner, group, permissions, free space, file system format, etc. Does this give you what you need?

I noticed I got nothing that would tell me wether I can write to my mounted disk images... for that, turn to do shell script and hdiutil:


do shell script "hdiutil info"

hdiutil is only useful for disk images. In general you are better off using diskutil for this since it will handle all mounted volumes.


Here's a handler that will check if a disk is read-only or not:
----
on IsDiskReadOnly(theName)

	-- need to shorten name because "diskutil list"
	-- name output is limited to 32 characters

if (length of theName > 32) then
set shortName to text 1 through 32 of theName
else
set shortName to theName
end if

set searchString to quoted form of shortName

set theResult to do shell script "diskutil info `diskutil list | grep -F " & ¬
searchString & " | awk '{ print $NF }'` | awk '/Read Only:/{ print $3 }'"

if (theResult contains "Yes") then
return true
else
return false
end if


end IsDiskReadOnly

-- test case

tell application "Finder"
	set diskName1 to name of disk 1    -- a hard drive
	set diskName3 to name of disk 3    -- a DVD-ROM
end tell

if IsDiskReadOnly(diskName1) then    --> false
	display dialog "disk 1 is read-only"
else
	-- this should display
	display dialog "disk 1 is not read-only"
end if

if IsDiskReadOnly(diskName3) then    --> true
	-- this should display
	display dialog "disk 3 is read-only"
else
	display dialog "disk 3 is not read-only"
end if
----

The only glitch that I can see with this script is if you have two disks that have names which are the same up to the first 32 characters. That's not too likely so I didn't bother checking it.

- Ken


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