How do I list the available system roots?

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How do I list the available system roots?

Use the method listRoots in the File class. Notice that this is filesystem dependent. On Unix, there is only one system root: "/". On Windows, it depends on drives that are mapped.
Here's an example:

Main.java:

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outputs on my machine:

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Author of answer: Joris Van den Bogaert

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