statvfs

[Korthrun]

At 2007-10-29, bj_666 at gmx.net expressed thier undying love for me by saying:
> On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:52:12 -0500, Korthrun wrote:
>
>> I'm writing some scripts to populate RRD's, mainly for practicing python.
>> 
>> As such I've decided to play with statvfs in order to build disk
>> graphs. Here is what I have and what I get. What I'm curious about
>> here is the meaning of the "L" charcter, as that fubars math.
>
> The L means its a `long` literal, i.e. an integer value that can be
> arbitrary big.  Well its limited by memory of course.
>
> And it doesn't "fubar" math, the L just shows up in the string
> representation but you don't calculate with strings but numbers.
>
>> ###start code###
>> 
>> from os import statvfs, path
>> from statvfs import *
>> 
>> mps = [ '/', '/home', '/www', '/var', '/storage/backups',
>> '/storage/snd' ]
>> 
>> for fs in mps:
>> 	data = statvfs(fs)
>> 	print data
>> 
>> ###end code, start output###
>> (4096, 4096, 4883593L, 4045793L, 4045793L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 1024, 255)
>> (4096, 4096, 1220889L, 1114718L, 1114718L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0, 255)
>> (4096, 4096, 19267346L, 18273138L, 18273138L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0, 255)
>> (4096, 4096, 3662687L, 3492397L, 3492397L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0, 255)
>> (4096, 4096, 3417702L, 2116063L, 2116063L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0, 255)
>> (4096, 4096, 25885944L, 21799115L, 21799115L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0, 255)
>> ###end output###
>> 
>> Ideally I'll just do some blocksize * number of blocks math to get
>> the % of used space.
>
> Just go ahead and do it:
>
> In [185]: stat = os.statvfs('/')
>
> In [186]: stat.f_bsize
> Out[186]: 4096
>
> In [187]: stat.f_blocks
> Out[187]: 2622526L
>
> In [188]: stat.f_bsize * stat.f_blocks
> Out[188]: 10741866496L
>
> Ciao,
> 	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
Thanks for the response, I'll have to play with it more, as I'm
obviously misunderstanding the error that I'm getting.
I didn't include the part of the script that did the math, as it
wasn't important to my base question.

I was getting TypeError: "sequence index must be integer", so I
thought the L was making python see it as a string.

Thanks for the insight

Josh