implemenation of "df" command to find out free disk space information
Hi everyone,
df command can help to print out various disk space information for each file system and its underlying implementation relies on the statfs function.
I do not know why, in its implementation, the way of getting the available size of a file system is :
Code:
f_bavail x f_bsize / 1024 ;
// free blocks available to non-super user x block size of the file system / 1 Kbyte
And, why not use
Code:
f_bfree x f_bsize / 1024
// total free blocks of the file system x a block size of the file system / 1 Kbyte
As the struct statfs defined, the f_bavail is the free block available to non-super user, and in the embedded (linux) world, most of the time, the system/program runs under the super user mode on the device. In this case, should we use f_bfree instead if we want to find out the total free space available of a file system?
Thanks~