drive-tools v0.0.20

drive-tools

drive-tools is a Node.js package for listing drives and getting system path (Desktop, Downloads, and etc).

Current version supports MacOS and Windows;

Install

npm install drive-tools

Usage

const driveTools = require('drive-tools')

console.log(driveTools.systemPath("desktop"));
// Available: home, desktop, pictures, downloads, music, movies, documents

console.log(driveTools.driveList());

driveTools.driveList

The return value is an Array, looks like:

[
  { name: '/', desc: 'Internal', external: false },
  { name: '/System/Volumes/Data', desc: 'Internal', external: false },
,
  { name: '/Volumes/USB-Drive', desc: 'External', external: true }
]

Only for Windows, It's able to specity drive type.

0 = Unknown
1 = No Root Directory
2 = Removable Disk
3 = Local Disk
4 = Network Drive
5 = Compact Disc
6 = RAM Disk

For example, if you want to listup only CD-ROM drive,

console.log(driveTools.driveList(5));

[ { name: 'Name', desc: 'Description', external: false },
  { name: 'D:', desc: 'CD-ROM Disc', external: true } ]

Required

Please install encoding-japanese. npm install encoding-japanese

Support

Meteoric Stream: https://meteoricstream.com/

History

2020-06-19(0.0.1): created beta version 2020-06-19(0.0.11): bug fix 2020-06-24(0.0.12): added driveTools.systemPath("home") 2020-06-25(0.0.14): bug fix 2020-07-01(0.0.15): bug fix 2020-07-12(0.0.16): added drive type paramater for driveList() (only for windows) 2020-07-12(0.0.17): bug fix 2020-07-29(0.0.18): added MediaType only for Mac 2021-05-10(0.0.19): bug fix 2021-06-03(0.0.20): bug fix