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+#!/usr/bin/python2
+
+#
+# disk monitor
+#
+
+#imports
+import os
+
+
+class diskmon(object):
+    """collect information about local partitions"""
+
+    #constructor
+    def __init__(self):
+        pass
+
+    def gather(self):
+        """gather the actual information"""
+
+        self.partitions = [] #information about all partitions (list of lists)
+        self.part = [] #information about one partition
+        self.uuids = os.listdir("/dev/disk/by-uuid") #folder contains symlinks to the actual disk devices 
+        for self.uuid in self.uuids: #write /dev/names as keys and uuids as values in the dictionary
+            self.part.append("/dev/" + os.readlink("/dev/disk/by-uuid/" + self.uuid)[6:])
+            self.part.append(self.uuid)
+
+            #getting mountpoint for partition from mtab
+            self.mtab = open("/etc/mtab", "r")
+            for self.line in self.mtab.readlines():
+                if self.part[0] in self.line:
+                    self.part.append(self.line.split()[1])
+                    self.part.append(self.line.split()[2])
+                    break
+            self.mtab.close()
+
+            #getting block infos
+            if os.path.ismount(self.part[2]):
+                self.fs = os.statvfs(self.part[2])
+                self.part.append(self.fs.f_bsize) #blocksize
+                self.part.append(self.fs.f_blocks) #total blocks
+                self.part.append(self.fs.f_bavail) #free blocks
+
+            #adding partition to list
+            self.partitions.append(self.part)
+
+
+
+
+
+#output
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    diskmoninstance = diskmon()
+    diskmoninstance.gather()
+    #print diskmoninstance.partitions
+    for partition in diskmoninstance.partitions:
+        print "device: " + str(partition[0]) + "\nuuid: " + str(partition[1]) + "\nmountpoint: " + str(partition[2]) + "\nfilesystem: " + str(partition[3]) + "\nblocksize: " + str(partition[4]) + "\ntotal blocks: " + str(partition[5]) + "\nfree blocks: " + str(partition[6]) + "\n\n"
+
+
+#end of file