Code to automatically find a physical drive for running a build, triggered as necessary.
#!perl -w
#
# Copyright (c) 2010 Symbian Foundation Ltd
# This component and the accompanying materials are made available
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# 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";