Enumerate system drives in nodejs

Question

Enumerate system drives in nodejs

Is there a way to retrieve the drive name of all logical drives on a computer ?

I've looked at the fs api, but from there I can only enumerate the files and directories of a given directory.

node.js

Answer 1

How about using the DiskPart command? Does running diskpart list in the command line give you the output you need? If so you can execute this in node using child_process.exec

var exec = require('child_process).exec
var cmd = 'diskpart list'
exec(cmd, function(err, stdout, stderr) {
  if (err) {
    console.log('error running diskpart list command')
    console.log(err)
    return
  }
  console.log('stdout data')
  console.log(stdout)

  console.log('stderr data')
  console.log(stderr)
})

Answer 2

I'm not sure what you mean by "drive name". If you mean drives in the form of \\.\PhysicalDriveN, I faced the same problem and implemented this module that works in all major operating systems:

https://github.com/resin-io/drivelist

For Windows, you get information such as:

[
    {
        device: '\\\\.\\PHYSICALDRIVE0',
        description: 'WDC WD10JPVX-75JC3T0',
        size: '1000 GB'
    },
    {
        device: '\\\\.\\PHYSICALDRIVE1',
        description: 'Generic STORAGE DEVICE USB Device',
        size: '15 GB'
    }
]