inspect_path

inspect_path is a small cross-platform Rust crate for inspecting filesystem paths. It can determine whether a path refers to a fixed, removable, or remote filesystem, and can optionally probe whether that path is currently mounted or disconnected.

The crate works on both Windows and Unix-like systems and hides platform-specific details behind a simple, consistent API.

Features

• Detects filesystem path type
  • Fixed disks
  • Removable media
  • Network / remote mounts
  • CD-ROM and RAM disks
• Identifies remote filesystem types when possible
  • Windows shares (SMB / CIFS)
  • NFS
  • AFS
• Allows probing a path to determine mount status
• Platform-specific implementations with a shared public API

Platform Support

Windows

• Fixed drives
• Removable drives
• CD-ROM drives
• RAM disks
• Network shares (UNC paths and mapped drives)

Unix / Linux

• Local filesystems (ext4, xfs, btrfs, etc.)
• Network filesystems (NFS, SMB/CIFS, AFS)
• tmpfs and optical media
• Uses filesystem magic numbers via statfs

Some filesystem details cannot be inferred on all platforms (for example, Linux cannot always distinguish NTFS backing devices).

Usage

Inspecting a path

use std::path::Path;
use inspect_path::inspect_path;

let info = inspect_path(Path::new(r"C:\")).unwrap();

if info.is_fixed() {
    println!("This is a fixed filesystem");
}