How to find out about free space on a given drive?

[Steve Purcell]

Dinu Gherman wrote:
> is there a simple way (or any way at all) to find out for 
> any given hard disk how much free space is left on that
> device? I looked into the os module, but either not hard
> enough or there is no such function. Of course, the ideal
> solution would be platform-independant, too... :)

os.statvfs() seems to be what you want for UNIX. I don't think you'll find
a cross-platform solution.

-Steve

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