From: Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>
Date: 2003-03-12T13:32:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby extension to get mount information in Linux

/etc/fstab are the drives that can be mounted

/etc/mtab are the drives that ARE mounted.

Sam

Quoteing n.thomp@roadrunner.nf.net, on Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 05:32:17AM +0900:
> anonimous wrote:
> 
> > Is there a library for getting information in drives that can be mounted
> > and can then mount or unmount those drives in Linux/Unix, I can write my
> > program to read the /etc/fstab file but then I would have to go to extra
> > trouble to find out if the drives are mounted or not so I would preffer
> > having a library to do the work for me.
> 
> I'm not getting any replies so I'll try explaining what I am asking again in 
> case the silence is related to people not understanding what I was asking.
> 
> Basically what I would like to know is if there is a ruby library or 
> extension for the mount command in Linux, I also need it to be able to get 
> information on the drives that can be mounted.
>