How to query the containing partition of a file with KDE/Qt4?

Question

I'm using KDE, and I'm toying with the idea of hacking the code for Dolphin File Manager (and potentially Konqueror if necessary) to get context-sensitive drag and drop behaviour (ie files are moved within the same partition, or copied if they're moved across partitions or the source is read only).

To do this, I think I'd need to find out the containing partition of the source and destination (easy enough on Windows using the drive letter, but on Linux, as mount points can be almost anywhere, it can't be reliably derived from the file path), and compare them. Does anyone know how I can find out the partition that contains a given file?

It must be possible - I know Nautilus provides this sort of behaviour, but I'm not familiar enough with GTK to track down the appropriate section in the source code to see how its done...

Answer 1

Qt doesn't provide API for this. For POSIX, have a look at stat .

Answer 2

For KDE, you can use KIO::stat() to get mostly the same info as POSIX' stat function but asynchronously.
The device id should be in the field UDS_DEVICE_ID of the result.