hi i have some doubts on a volume and the file system

[muttu2244 at yahoo.com]

Hi Tim,
Thanks for that help, that code is indeed working fine
 thanks a ton for that

regards
yogi


Tim Golden wrote:
> [muttu2244 at yahoo.com]
>
> > i want to check the position of a volume in a particular
> > drive. say for example in a disk i have 3 different drives:
> > C:\ , D:\  and E:\.
> > Now if i want to check what position is the D:\ in, how
> > can i write the code. Means whether its in a 0th position
> > or 1st position or a 2nd position.
> > Is there any way using win32api or win32com.
>
> > if i want to check a particular volume is a logical, or a primary one
> ,
> > what is the method i have to use? does it can also be done through
> > win32api.
>
> Well, this page suggests that it's possible using WMI:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/resources/qanda/may05/hey0
> 523.mspx
>
> and, using the WMI module from here:
>
> http://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi.html
>
> this bit of code seems to give you what you want.
>
> <code>
> import wmi
> c = wmi.WMI ()
>
> for physical_disk in c.Win32_DiskDrive ():
>   for partition in physical_disk.associators
> ("Win32_DiskDriveToDiskPartition"):
>     for logical_disk in partition.associators
> ("Win32_LogicalDiskToPartition"):
>       print physical_disk.Caption, partition.Caption,
> logical_disk.Caption
>
> </code>
>
> Obviously, I've just printed the Caption, but you could pick up whatever
>
> information you wanted from the disk, partition & logical_disk objects.
> If you just print the object itself, it will give you all its fields
> and values.
>
> By the way, thanks for the question. I've never come across a meaningful
> example of WMI associators before, although I've had the code in the
> module since the first version.
>
> TJG
>
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