Re: [Boost-users] [filesystem] function to determine available space

12 Sep 2005


      "Pavel Vozenilek"  wrote in message 
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"Beman Dawes" wrote:
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I'm planning to add a filesystem function to determine available disk 
space. Perhaps something like:
struct space_status
{
 boost::uintmax_t  available;  // free space available to user
 boost::uintmax_t  total;        // total space on volume
};
space_status filesystem_space( const path & p );
The single uintmax_t may not be able to capture
all those free gigabytes. Better use two values.
Hum... Are there any systems anymore that support disk drives that don't 
have 64-bit uintmax_t?
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The name may be "available_disk_space".
But lots of file systems aren't disks. Flash memory for example.

Thanks,

--Beman