Easy way to detect hard drives and partitions in Linux

[Jeff Epler]

You're not going to find a single portable "unix" way of doing this.
The format of /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab are pretty portable, but they
only list mountable/mounted partitions, not all partitions.

In addition to the linux possibilities mentioned in another reply, there
is also /proc/partitions.  Finally, if you only want to recognize
FDISK.EXE-type partitions (used by many types of Linux, though that
seems to be changing in Fedora Core 4), it shouldn't be hard to write a
Python program to read the partition table directly from the disk.  The
details will be readily available online.

Jeff
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