windows - Acquiring drive names (as opposed to drive letters) in Java

Question

On my Windows machine, my main hard drive has the letter C: and the name "Local disk".

To list the drive letters in Java on Windows, the File object has the static listRoots() method. But I can't find a way to acquire the drive names (as opposed to the drive letters) on Windows.

Has anyone tried this before?

Answer 1

Ah yes, you need to get the FileSystemView object and use getSystemDisplayName. (I once implemented a Filesystem browser in Java).

It's not perfect though but it will get you the name. From the documentation:

Name of a file, directory, or folder as it would be displayed in a system file browser. Example from Windows: the "M:" directory displays as "CD-ROM (M:)" The default implementation gets information from the ShellFolder class.