Description

A Ruby interface for getting file system information.

Installation

gem install sys-filesystem

Windows

If the installation command above doesn't work try this:

gem install sys-filesystem --platform x86-mingw32

Synopsis

require 'sys/filesystem'
include Sys

# Display information about a particular filesystem.
p Filesystem.stat('/')

# Sample output

#<Sys::Filesystem::Stat:0x517440
  @base_type = "ufs",
  @flags = 4,
  @files_available = 3817457,
  @block_size = 8192,
  @blocks_available = 19957633,
  @blocks = 34349612,
  @name_max = 255,
  @path = "/",
  @filesystem_id = 35651592,
  @files = 4135040,
  @fragment_size = 1024,
  @files_free = 3817457,
  @blocks_free = 20301129
>

# Describe all mount points on the system
Filesystem.mounts{ |mount| p mount }

# Find the mount point of any particular file
puts Filesystem.mount_point('/home/djberge/some_file.txt') => '/home'

Notes

MS Windows

This is a pure Ruby implementation using the windows-pr library, which in
turn wraps native Windows functions.

UNIX

This is a C extension that wraps statvfs, etc.

Sample code

Run 'rake example' if you want to see a basic sample run. The actual code
is 'example_stat.rb' in the 'examples' directory. Modify it as you see fit.

Known Bugs

None that I'm aware of.  Please report bugs on the project page at
http://www.rubyforge.org/projects/sysutils.

Future Plans

Suggestions welcome.

Acknowledgements

Mike Hall, for ideas and code that I borrowed from his 'filesystem'
library.

Park Heesob, for implementation and API ideas for the MS Windows version.

Nobuyoshi Miyokawa, for adding FreeBSD and OS X support.

License

Artistic 2.0

Copyright

(C) 2003-2010 Daniel J. Berger
All Rights Reserved

Warranty

This library is provided "as is" and without any express or
implied warranties, including, without limitation, the implied
warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.

Author

Daniel J. Berger