How to tell if a drive is local or remote in Java ????

[Gil Blais]

Does anyone know how to do this? Would surely help me right now...

Thanks in advance, Gil Blais

 

[Boudewijn Dijkstra]

Does anyone know how to do this? Would surely help me right now...

Runtime.exec(new String[] {"C:\Windows\System32\net.exe", "use"});

 

[Oscar kind]

Does anyone know how to do this? Would surely help me right now...

The subject I see in my newsreader is:
"How to tell if a drive is local or r"

So please restate your question in the body of your post. Also, the part I
do see raises one important question: what is a "drive"?

If by chance you mean a "disk drive", as Windows denotes by a letter, then
no: this is not possible, because it is OS specific. Compare to Linux:
- the entire filesystem is one tree (instead of up to 26 with Windows)
- any directory can be mounted from several sources, such as another
harddisk, a floppy disk, CD-ROM drive, NFS share, Windows share, etc.

In any case (at least using either Windows or Linux), the OS takes care of
all those details and you don't know if a file location is remote or not.

In a Java program, I find it best to use this distinction:
- If it is represented as a File, it is local.
- If it is represented as a URL, it can be remote; so treat it as such.

 

[Steve Horsley]

Does anyone know how to do this? Would surely help me right now...

Thanks in advance, Gil Blais

I don't think there is a pure java way.

You could search the file /etc/mtab and see if a parent directory
is listed there.

Steve

 

[nwc]

Why does it matter to you? If it's matter of choosing among available
drives for temp space, for example, you could select one based on how long
it takes to write something and read it back.