How do I retrieve disk information in C#?

Question

I would like to access information on the logical drives on my computer using C#. How should I accomplish this? Thanks!

Answer 1

In ASP .NET Core 3.1, if you want to get code that works both on windows and on linux, you can get your drives as follows:

var drives = DriveInfo
    .GetDrives()
    .Where(d => d.DriveType == DriveType.Fixed)
    .Where(d => d.IsReady
    .ToArray();

If you don't apply both wheres, you are going to get many drives if you run the code in linux (e.g. "/dev", "/sys", "/etc/hosts", etc.).

This is specially useful when developing an app to work in a Linux Docker container.