How to read drive label

[Thomas B.]

Hello. I'd like to get the labels of the hard drives (partitions) on my
machine from within a program. Is there any universal Ruby command to do
it?

I'm on Windows, so I guess I could use some WinAPI to do that but I'd
prefer not to, if it is possible. But any solution will be appreciated!

TPR.

 

[Siep Korteling]

Hello. I'd like to get the labels of the hard drives (partitions) on my
machine from within a program. Is there any universal Ruby command to do
it?

I'm on Windows, so I guess I could use some WinAPI to do that but I'd
prefer not to, if it is possible. But any solution will be appreciated!

TPR.

For windows:

require 'ruby-wmi'

disks = WMI::Win32_LogicalDisk.findall, :conditions=>{:drivetype=>3})

disks.each do |disk|
puts "#{disk.deviceid} #{disk.volumename}"
end

# There is a lot more info in "disks"
puts "_______________________"

disks.each do |disk|
disk.properties_.each do |p|
puts "#{p.name}: #{disk[p.name]}" unless (disk[p.name]).nil?
end
end


hth,

Siep