Hi Guys,

I'm trying to open a USB drive on Kubuntu to write to, but clearly I need to find out which drives are available first. The following code works fine after the drives have been examined using dolphin or whatever, but otherwise not. So I can plug in a USB drive and run the code and I get negative results. If I then inspect a drive with dolphin and run the code, the drive is detected. I guess I need to mount the drive somehow, but how?

Advice welcome.

Code follows.

Thanks

Steve 


use strict;
use warnings;

package dir_test;

for (my $i=0;$i<=5;$i++){
    if ($i==0 and opendir (MYDIR, "/media/disk/.")){
        print "/media/disk/","\n";
        closedir (MYDIR);
    } else {
        if ($i>0 and opendir (MYDIR, "/media/disk-$i/.")){
            print "/media/disk-$i/","\n";
            closedir (MYDIR);
        } else {
            print "not /media/disk-$i/","\n";
        } 
    }
}

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In reply to Opening a USB drive for storing info. by Steve_BZ

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