How to get a List of drives on window

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Re: How to get a List of drives on window by myocom (Deacon) on Aug 14, 2002 at 21:34 UTC
Two modules spring to mind. Win32::DriveInfo is one, and Dave Roth's Win32::AdminMisc is the other. Both modules have functions that will return a list of drives: `DrivesInUse()` in the former, and `Win32::AdminMisc::GetDrives()` in the latter. "One word of warning: if you meet a bunch of Perl programmers on the bus or something, don't look them in the eye. They've been known to try to convert the young into Perl monks." - Frank Willison	[reply] [d/l] [select]
(tye)Re: How to get a List of drives on window by tye (Sage) on Aug 14, 2002 at 21:46 UTC
Note that Win32API::File has a nice advantage over the other modules previously suggested in that it is part of libwin32 and so comes preinstalled with Win32 binary distributions of Perl. `use strict; use Win32API::File qw( getLogicalDrives GetDriveType :DRIVE_ ); for my $root ( getLogicalDrives() ) { my $type= GetDriveType($root); if( DRIVE_FIXED == $type \|\| DRIVE_RAMDISK == $type ) { .... } }` [download] Since you probably don't want to search the floppy, CD-ROM, unpartitioned, nor network drives. - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")	[reply] [d/l]
Re: How to get a List of drives on window by blaze (Friar) on Aug 14, 2002 at 21:35 UTC
I believe you can use Win32::DriveInfo, I know it works for win98, never tried on winNT `#!/Perl/bin/perl -w use strict; use Win32::DriveInfo; my @drives = Win32::DriveInfo::DrivesInUse();` [download] should give you all the drives that are in use hth	[reply] [d/l]
Re: How to get a List of drives on window by Marza (Vicar) on Aug 14, 2002 at 23:38 UTC
I wrote a small script that does space checks which does what you ask. Look at Domain Disk space check for an example of yet another way to do it! ;)	[reply]