How to check amt of SPACE FREE on HDD

[Cameron Laird]

In article <au04lk$13j$1 at norfair.nerim.net>, Gillou <nospam at bigfoot.com> wrote:
>"RichardJ" <richardj at syspres.com> a écrit dans le message de news:
>jrIM9.286872$GR5.95456 at rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net...
>> New to python, but have all the O'Reilly Python books and was not able to
>> find the call you would use to check the amount of space is available on a
>> hard-drive.
>>
>> The application will be downloading huge amount of data using ftp, so
>needs
>> to check how much space is available. At the moment running on WinXP Pro,
>> but likely to run on Linux.
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>My solution runs on Windows only...
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>If you got win32all package, search for GetDiskFreeSpace in the help
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>http://starship.python.net/crew/skippy/win32/Downloads.html
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>On a Unix machine you can spawn the "df" command and parse the result.
>$ man df
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>But there are perhaps better solutions.
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>--Gilles
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Not really.  Common filesystems and their operating systems
don't bother abstracting this.  <URL: http://wiki.tcl.tk/526 >,
under "disk free capacity", has notes on the subject.
in <URL: http://wiki.tcl.tk/526 >
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