ASP in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

Name

FileSystem (Drive Object) — drvObj .FileSystem

Synopsis

A string value that represents the file system type used to format the current drive. The recognized file system types are CDFS, NTFS, FAT, and FAT32. This is a read-only property.

Parameters

None

Example

<%

' Dimension local variables. 
Dim fsoObject      ' FileSystemObject
Dim drvObject      ' Drive Object
Dim strFileSys     ' File system of drive

' Instantiate the FileSystemObject variable.
Set fsoObject = Server.CreateObject( _
                "Scripting.FileSystemObject")
' Using the GetDrive method of fsoObject, initialize 
' a Drive object.
Set drvObject = fsoObject.GetDrive("\\PublicDocs")
' Retrieve the file system for the drive. This value 
' will contain one of the following strings: 
' NTFS, FAT, or CDFS. 
strFileSys = drvObject.FileSystem
. . . [additional code]

%>

Notes

You can rely on the value of the FileSystem property of a Drive object to reflect cluster sizes and security features available for the current drive.