Disc space on a floppy disc

[Roman Suzi]

On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Florian Fredegar Haftmann wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Is there any possibility for python under Linux to test how much disc
> space on a floppy disc is free (except by parsing the output of the "df"
> command)?

There is os.statvfs() function and constants of statvfs
to interpret results of os.statvfs call.

For example:

>>> print os.statvfs("/boot")
(1024, 1024, 23333, 13088, 11884, 6024, 5988, 5988, 0, 255)
>>> os.system("df")
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
...
/dev/hda4                23333     10245     11884  46% /boot
...

(please, not that available space is not all space that is
available. Usually 5% are reserved for root on ext2 filesystems.
Not sure about floppies.)

Sincerely yours, Roman A.Suzi
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