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DESCRIPTION
This is a Ruby extension for file-system information, using the 'statvfs' and 'getmntent' system calls. Tested on Linux and Solaris Version 0.5
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module FileSystem
FileSystem.stat( path )
Struct FileSystemStat
s.path directory path provided
s.block_size optimal transfer block size
s.blocks total number of data blocks in file system
s.blocks_free number of free blocks in file system
s.blocks_avail number of free blocks available to non-super-user
s.files total number of file nodes in file system
s.files_free number of free file nodes in file system
s.files_avail number of free file nodes available to non-super-user
s.flags file system flags
s.maxnamelen maximum file name length
FileSystem.mounts( optional file name )
FileSystem.mounts( optional file name ) { |mt| optional block }
The default mount-table filename is "/etc/mtab" on Linux,
and "/etc/mnttab" on Solaris. On Linux, this can be used
to scan "/etc/fstab" also.
Struct FileSystemMount
m.device file system (i.e. partition device) name
m.mount mount point directory
m.fstype file system type
m.options mount options
m.time time the filesystem was mounted (Solaris)
m.dump_interval dump frequency in days (Linux/BSD)
m.check_pass pass number of file system check (Linux/BSD)
Constants for FileSystem.stat 'flags'
Solaris: RDONLY NOSUID NOTRUNC
Linux: RDONLY NOSUID
GNU: RDONLY NOSUID NODEV NOEXE SYNC MANDLOCK
WRITE APPEND IMMUTABLE NOATIME NODIRATIME
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ruby extconf.rb make ruby Test.rb (optional directories) make install
Move this "documentation" into the source. Convert st.flags from a number to an array of strings. Solicit patches for other UNIXen.
Daniel Berger for testing on Solaris, and motivation. comp.lang.ruby for suggesting better names. Dmitry Borodaenko for finding a bug (by testing on IA64 Debian)
Mike Hall mghall@enteract.com www.enteract.com/~mghall 2003-09-04
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