This got me thinking about how to do the corresponding thing on Unix (find the hardware device). The following succeeds on my (Linux) machine, but may have problems with trailing slashes on the directories returned by 'mount'. 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my $mountlist = `mount`;

my %mounts;
$mounts{$2} = $1 while($mountlist =~ /(.*) on (.*) type.*\n/g);

my $location = `pwd`;
chomp $location;

my $mount_dir = $location;

$mount_dir =~ s#/[^/]*$## while $mount_dir && !$mounts{$mount_dir};

$mount_dir ||= '/'; # Add the 'trailing' slash back in if we're mounte
+d as root

print "Directory $location is on device $mounts{$mount_dir}\n";

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Ron Steinke rsteinke@w-link.net

In reply to Re: check a drive litter by rsteinke
in thread check a drive letter by amoura

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