list of drives

kdjantzen has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

In one of the posts to this list I found the following expression open(FSUTIL,"fsutil fsinfo drives | "); This obviously opens a file that contains the drive information. But what is >> "fsutil fsinfo drives | <<? Running this on my system I get an error message indicating that fsutil is unknown. Am I missing something? I'd appreciate your help.

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Re: list of drives by ELISHEVA (Prior) on Mar 05, 2009 at 08:13 UTC
`"fsutil fsinfo drives\| "` tells open to pipe the output of the `fsutil fsinfo drives` command to the file handle `FSUTIL`. fsutil is a Win XP/Server 2003 utility. "fsinfo drives" is one of its parameters. So that bit of code only works on certain MS-Win systems. Best, beth	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: list of drives by Corion (Patriarch) on Mar 05, 2009 at 08:10 UTC
For what `open(FSUTIL,"fsutil fsinfo drives \| ");` does, see open. You don't tell us what "your system" is, but if it is Windows, you'll likely be better off by using one of the native ways to get at the "list of drives", like Win32::DriveInfo, (Win32) Hard Drive Information or DBD::WMI and the appropriate WMI query. I found all these by searching Google for site:perlmonks.org list of drives.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: list of drives by Anonymous Monk on Mar 05, 2009 at 08:08 UTC
No. It opens command "fsutil fsinfo drives". perldoc -f open	[reply]
Re: list of drives by slacker (Friar) on Mar 05, 2009 at 13:27 UTC
If this is a *nix based list you want, consider `df -k` or `cat /proc/diskstats`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: list of drives by kdjantzen (Acolyte) on Mar 06, 2009 at 08:40 UTC
Right, I forgot to say that I use SuSE/Novell Linux. Is there no package for Linux as there is for Windows?	[reply]