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From: tjo@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Tim Oldham)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Finding diskspace status programatically.
Keywords: df disk space blocks free
Message-ID: <281@cat.fulcrum.bt.co.uk>
Date: 11 Sep 89 11:32:22 GMT
References: <146@beta.nsc.com> <10651@dasys1.UUCP>
Reply-To: tjo@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Tim Oldham)
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In article <10651@dasys1.UUCP> jpr@dasys1.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley) writes:
>In article <146@beta.nsc.com> somani@parns.nsc.com (Anil Somani) writes:
>>What is the best way to find out current available diskspace 
>>from within a program? 
>
>Have you tried the ustat() call?


AT&T UNIX System V Programmer's Reference Manual, statfs(2):

"statfs obsoletes ustat and should be used in preference to it in new
programs."

Much better all round.

	Tim.
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