[Haskell-cafe] Re: listing mountpoints and getting their properties in Haskell

Achim Schneider barsoap at web.de
Sat Feb 27 12:46:13 EST 2010


Eugene Dzhurinsky <bofh at redwerk.com> wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> I need to list all currently mounted filesystems and get some stats
> like total space, free space, mount point and physical device.
> 
> Is there any library capable of obtaining such information from OS
> itself? Parsing output of 'df' is locale-dependent and error-prone
> (because of locale settings, output settings etc).
> 
> Thank you in advance.
> 
There's mount, which I think has a portable output format, and my df
comes with the -P option to switch to POSIX output.



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