Consider linking to a cross-platform API for checking devices and partitions

I am currently building an utility to detect the filesystem alongside some other properties of the volumes and devices on the computer. The utility will support macOS, Windows and Linux.

On Linux I use the commands df -T, fdisk -l and lsblk to obtain my information, while on mac I use diskutil info -all and wmic logicaldisk get on Windows. I will provide as much of a unified interface as possible, returning an hash of all devices and volumes with properties id, node, whole, parent, name, size, description, physical block size, logical block size, read only, removable, filesystem type, mounted, mount point, blocks, space available, space used, total space.

Interested? 😃

[jprichardson]

@philippefutureboy very cool. This should be a separate module for the time being. When I feel fs-extra has stability and can do things like chmodr and regex on files, we can revisit. But until then, I’d like to keep what you have as a separate module. We’d accept a PR though to the readme to inform people that this is a complementary module.

[RyanZim]

Considering closed by #534. Tagging as future to remind about merging.