Filter detected device type

[giampaolo]

From [email protected] on April 23, 2014 04:07:06

This is a feature request.
Is it possible to detect only connected usb disk drives (like pendrive) with psutils?

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/psutil/issues/detail?id=498

[giampaolo]

From g.rodola on April 22, 2014 19:13:02

I think you should see what psutil.disk_partitions() ( 
https://pythonhosted.org/psutil/#psutil.disk_partitions ) returns when you have 
an USB disk connected then simply filter for "fstype".

[giampaolo]

From [email protected] on April 22, 2014 19:16:25

Read it. The way it is written, it seems to work under windows only.

Anyway, Will test and report back. If working, you may want to update the
doc.

[giampaolo]

From g.rodola on April 22, 2014 19:19:50

What do you mean? What is returned if an USB disk is connected and how should I 
update the doc?

[giampaolo]

From [email protected] on April 23, 2014 06:14:46

Sorry for the delay. 
Here is the simple sample code:-

import psutil
for device in psutil.disk_partitions(all=False):
  print device[0]

It producess an output like this:-
/dev/sda5
/dev/sda8
/dev/sda7
/dev/sda6
/dev/sdb1

Now, how do I detemine if "/dev/sdb1" is a USB device?

[giampaolo]

From g.rodola on April 23, 2014 13:07:33

Try to paste the whole namedtuple as in:

import psutil
for device in psutil.disk_partitions(all=False):
  print device

[giampaolo]

From [email protected] on April 23, 2014 20:24:19

Here is the nametuple you asked for:-

sdiskpart(device='/dev/sda5', mountpoint='/', fstype='ext4', 
opts='rw,relatime,data=ordered')
sdiskpart(device='/dev/sda6', mountpoint='/media/DEBIAN', fstype='ext4', 
opts='rw,relatime,data=ordered')
sdiskpart(device='/dev/sda8', mountpoint='/media/FUN', fstype='vfat', 
opts='rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,gid=100,fmask=0002,dmask=0002,allow_utime=0020,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro')

sdiskpart(device='/dev/sda7', mountpoint='/media/DATA', fstype='vfat', 
opts='rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,gid=100,fmask=0002,dmask=0002,allow_utime=0020,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro')

sdiskpart(device='/dev/sdb1', mountpoint='/run/media/sundar/SUNDAR', 
fstype='vfat', 
opts='rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=100,fmask=0022,dmask=0077,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,showexec,utf8,flush,errors=remount-ro')

[giampaolo]

AFAICT USB devices are supposed to be seen by psutil. Closing this out.