On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, Kevin Cozens wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> I was asked about have the application I'm working on (a C-based program)
> display a message when the USB memory stick is getting close to full. I'm not
> quite sure how to do that on a TS-7250 running the 2.4 Linux kernel. I was
> hoping for a /proc or /dev node I could read to get the amount of free and in
> use space on the USB memory stick but I haven't found anything that seems
> usable. I could parse the output from df but there must be an easier way that
> I have overlooked.
check out the statfs system function,
"statfs returns information about a mounted file system.
path is the path name of any file within the mounted
filesystem. buf is a pointer to a statfs structure
defined as follows:"
The man page on a Linux system (or try the web) gives details.
You'll probably have to write a small bit of C code.
>
> Any suggestions or pointers?
>
> --
> Cheers!
>
> Kevin.
>
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