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+++ b/common/tools/findPhysicalDrive.pl	Tue Jan 26 12:13:01 2010 +0000
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+#!perl -w
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2010 Symbian Foundation Ltd
+# This component and the accompanying materials are made available
+# under the terms of the License "Eclipse Public License v1.0"
+# which accompanies this distribution, and is available
+# at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html".
+#
+# Initial Contributors:
+# Symbian Foundation Ltd - initial contribution.
+# 
+# Contributors:
+#
+# Description:
+# Find and output the drive letter mapped to the physical volume with the
+# largest amount of free space
+# 
+
+use strict;
+
+# Use Windows command to list physical volumes on the machine
+# (No substed drives, or mapped network drives)
+my @drives = map {chomp;$_} `echo list volume | diskpart`;
+
+my %drives;
+for my $driveLine (@drives)
+{
+	# If this line of output is actually about a healthy HD volume...
+	if ($driveLine =~ m{^\s+Volume \d+\s+([A-Z]).*?(Partition|RAID-5)\s+\d+ [A-Z]+\s+Healthy} )
+	{
+		my $letter = $1;
+		# Ignore the system drive
+		next if ($driveLine =~ m{System\s*$});
+
+		# Use dir to get the freespace (bytes)
+		my @bytesFree = grep { s{^.*?(\d+) bytes free\s*$}{$1} } map {chomp;$_} `cmd /c dir /-C $letter:\\`;
+		# Take the value from the bottom of the report
+		my $bytesFree = $bytesFree[-1];
+
+		# Record info for this volume
+		$drives{$letter} = $bytesFree;
+	}
+}
+
+die "Unable to find any suitable drives at all\n" unless %drives;
+
+# Switch keys and values
+%drives = reverse %drives;
+# Sort by space to find the volume with the largest amount of space and print out the corresponding letter
+print "$drives{(reverse sort keys %drives)[0]}:\n";
+