[Pythonmac-SIG] Re: Determining the name of the "root" drive

[Jack Jansen]

On vrijdag, september 13, 2002, at 06:40 , Josh English wrote:

> Finally, one that even I can answer ; )
>
> try
>
>>>> os.getcwd().split(':')[0]
> 'Marvin'
>
> Marvin is the name of my hard drive.

Close, but no cigar. Your currrent directory doesn't have to be 
on the startup disk.

The right way to tackle this (or, one of the right ways, as the 
OSA example showed:-) is to ask where the current system folder 
is, and use your code on that filename:

import macfs
vrefnum, dirid = macfs.FindFolder('macs')
fss = macfs.FSSpec(vrefnum, dirid, "")
bootdiskname = fss.as_pathname().split(':')[0]


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