Get the empty space on a file system

[Heiko Wundram (Beenic)]

Am Montag, 18. Februar 2008 11:25:39 schrieb Olivier Nicole:
> How to:
>
> 1) knowing the name of the directory, how toknow the file system it
>    belongs to (not considering symbolic links, I can decide that the
>    directory is always a real path);
>
> 2) knowing the file system from 1), how to check the remaining space
>    in the file system?

man 2 statfs
man 2 statvfs

The former is freebsd-specific, though (AFAIK); the latter is portable (i.e., 
POSIX), but might return garbage (which is also indicated in the man-page for 
it).

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Heiko Wundram
Product & Application Development