gettings mounted file systems [newbie]

[Grant Edwards]

In article <lt8zoaoysp.fsf at nathan.gold.siebend.net>, Guido Goldstein wrote:
>
>Hi!
>
>On 17 Jan 2001 12:55:44 GMT
>  garabik at center.fmph.uniba.sk.spam (Radovan Garabik) wrote:
>> Moshe Zadka <moshez at zadka.site.co.il> wrote:
>[...]
>>  : Why not parse /etc/mtab?
[...]
>> basically, you have no easy portable way, except of
>> walking through all possible mount points and checking
>> os.path.ismount()
>
>Question 1:
>What do you mean with: "... possible mount points..."?

You start at "/" and recursively traverse the entire tree.

>Question 2:

>Am I right when I say: mount w/o any options prints all mounted
>devices to stdout?

On Unix-type systems it generally will.  The format varies
somewhat between systems.

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