enrike said :
> what about this?
> 
> du -sb /live/image | cut -f1

This cut splits the output of the pipe, after the 1st element, it would be
roughly translated in Python as:

output.split()[0]

 
> I know it calculates the size of the first partition but i am not
> sure how, the cut -f1 confuses me. I am not sure i can translate
> this line to python. I am now running it with os.popen and returning
> the output of the subprocess.

BTW, os.popen is obsolete, check the subprocess module instead.
http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html

 
> i am getting very close to have the python version ready, next step
> would be to add a GTK GUI to control it.

woohoo :D

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