Partition names with Python

[Artur M. Piwko]

In the darkest hour on Wed,  2 Jul 2003 11:17:49 +0300,
Erhan Ekici <erhan at uzem.itu.edu.tr> screamed:
> But some machines /proc/partition file is empty..
> But /etc/fstab contain drives names..(sda1,sda2,cdrom,floopy etc)
> 
> For Example My Server(Slackware 9)'s /proc/partition file contain nothing.
> I must take partition names on all Linux(Redhat,Mandrake,Slackware etc)..
> 
> Why do some machine's /proc/partition file contain nothing... 
> 

Yes, you have to compile it to kernel.

The best choice is /etc/mtab, imho.


Artur

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