Forums Feature Suggestions $disk(path|N).fsys

$disk(path|N)
Returns information about the specified hard disk, where N = 0 for total available drives, and N > 0 to access each drive.

Properties: type, free, label, size, unc, path, fsys

Property .fsys will return the file system type for the disk... FAT32, NTFS or any other file system type that the disk may be using.

and with this you want to say?

He's suggesting a property to $disk that returns the filesystem in use.

Could be useful I guess...

It could be useful indeed: $findfile() in an NTFS (and I think CDFS) drive returns the filenames in a sorted way, this is not the case with FAT though. So, a script that wants a sorted list of files could check .fsys and do no extra work (like hidden sorted windows) if the file system is NTFS.

yep- great idea.

of course in the mean time (if you can), dll's are great for file io.

Is that based on the drive format or the OS, i just did a findfile on a ntfs and a fat drive, and both came out sorted, i even mad a folder with unsorted files in it. (well then again i assume unsorted, i made a x.txt then a z.txt then a a.txt then a b.txt and they came out sorted?) I was using w2ks as the OS tho.

It depends solely on the file system.

The idea came to mind for 2 reasons. Firstly as you mentioned, different file systems use different sorting and listing procedures/patterns. Secondly for use with virtual drives that are often mounted or un-mounted on the run... some digital cameras for example do this.