Re: free disk space

From: Kelsey Bjarnason (kelseyb_at_xxnospamyy.lightspeed.bc.ca)
Date: 10/25/03 

Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 22:32:22 -0700

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 12:50:11 +0000, Nils Petter Vaskinn wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 12:40:29 +0000, Joona I Palaste wrote:
>
>> Piotr <torwalds@wp.pl> scribbled the following:
>>> What is the simple function checking free disk space ?
>>> thank you
>>
>> There isn't one in standard C.
>
> open a file,
> write to the file until you get an error, counting bytes
> close and reopen the file to free the space
> close the file
>
> Now the filesystem should have atleast as much free space as the bytes you
> counted.
>
> But he'd probably be better of using a platform specific way :)

I can just picture doing this on a system with a large storage array...
say one of those nifty 43TB units. A week or two later and he finally has
his value... :)

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