libmount 0.9

A wrapper around libmount, for reading and manipulating filesystem tables.

A library for reading and manipulating filesystem tables, such as /etc/fstab.

It uses ctypes to wrap libmount, part of util-linux.

Usage

Every reading and manipulation of the filesystem table should take place in a with block to take the lock:

from libmount import FilesystemTable

with FilesystemTable() as fstab:
    print fstab[0].target

A FilesystemTable acts like a list, so you can slice and iterate:

with FilesystemTable() as fstab:
    print [fs.source for fs in fstab]
    print fs[2:5]

FilesystemTable objects contain Filesystem objects, that each have source, target, fstab and options attributes. The first three are strings, whereas the latter is set-like:

with FilesystemTable() as fstab:
    fs = fstab[0]

    # Will print e.g. "/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (user_xattr)"
    print fs

    fs.source = '/dev/sda2'
    print "Options: %s" % ", ".join(fs.options)
    fs.options -= set(['user_xattr'])

To update the on-disk filesystem table, call save():

with FilesystemTable() as fstab:
    for fs in fstab:
        if fs.fstype in ('ext3', 'ext4'):
            fs.options.add('user_xattr')
    fstab.save()

Limitations

It is not yet possible to add or remove entries. This has not been thoroughly tested when run by non-privileged users.

Feedback

Feedback is gratefully received to [e-mail], or as an issue in the issue tracker.