In java, I have used File.listRoots() method to get root file list. It works fine for windows but does not work for linux. I want it to work for all operation systems, windows, linux, mac os, etc. How can I do it?
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In java, I have used File.listRoots() method to get root file list. It works fine for windows but does not work for linux. I want it to work for all operation systems, windows, linux, mac os, etc. How can I do it?
There only is one file system root on *NIX systems like Linux, which is called
/. There might be different partitions, mounted at different locations in the file system tree, but there only ever is one tree, and/is its root. Everything else is reachable from there.If you want to list partitions, that would be a different question, and likely one which has no portable solution, as partitions aren’t a portable concept either. For example Solaris does weird stuff in that area.