I'm trying to get information about the harddisk usage, similar to the output generated by "df"
I actually only need the number of free bytes available on the current mounting point (where the program is running) to check if it's possible to store large files the program downloads.
And it would be great, if there'd be both an answer for Linux and Windows systems
Sloede
> I'm trying to get information about the harddisk usage, similar to the output generated by "df"
Well your linux answer exists in the source code for df - heh, that was easy
> And it would be great, if there'd be both an answer for Linux and Windows systems
Ask on the windows board for whatever the win32 API call is for "getdiskinformation"
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Phew, I just mangled through the whole df.c code just to find out that it's using the statfs function to gather all the needed data
My only remaining question (as far as linux is concerned): How can I find out what the block size on my machine is or is the block size the same for let's say all i386 machines?
Sloede
Actually, it's still not working out for me. Statfs tells me that I only have some 435000 free blocks left while df tells me that there are for more than 2 mio. free blocks available. Does anyone know where this difference may come from?
Thx people for not answering my questions. Now, after nobody gave me any hints I had to find it out myself - it took me a while but I managed to do it and now I learned more about the whole matter. I got the results I wanted just by trying - the best way to learn, eh
Sloede
P.S.: If anyone might have the same question in the future: Include <sys/vfs.h> and use statfs (man statfs). It gives you the blocksize and the number of blocks available - that's what you want to know to calcute the free disk space.
