checking disk space

[zero]

hi all,

does any of you know how to check the available space on a storage device
(eg a hard disk) through Java?

TIA

zero

 

[Roedy Green]

does any of you know how to check the available space on a storage device
(eg a hard disk) through Java?

any number is of course instantly out of date. You exec SNIFF on a
Windows machine to find out. You can also try allocated a huge file
and deleting it.e

See http://mindprod.com/products.html#SNIFF

 

[Thomas Hawtin]

does any of you know how to check the available space on a storage device
(eg a hard disk) through Java?

Java SE 6 will have File.getUsableSpace and getFreeSpace, which will
give the number of usable/free bytes on the partition of a file (or the
partition it would be on were it to exist).

Tom Hawtin

 

[zero]

Java SE 6 will have File.getUsableSpace and getFreeSpace, which will
give the number of usable/free bytes on the partition of a file (or
the partition it would be on were it to exist).

Tom Hawtin

So basically in 1.5 there's no way? Oh well, I'll find a way around it.
Thanks

 

[Malte]

hi all,

does any of you know how to check the available space on a storage device
(eg a hard disk) through Java?

TIA

zero

exec df and pipe output to a file. Read the file. Should give you an
approximate number.

Don't know the Windows equivalent of df.

 

[None]

I submitted an addition to Jakarta Commons IO to do this in a
cross-platform manner. It is currently in SVN trunk and is slated to
be included in the next official release. Until then, here is a
direct link to the source in the SVN repository. Being under ASL 2.0
licensing terms, you can grab it and use it any way you want.

http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/j...e/commons/io/FileSystemUtils.java?view=markup

Until 6.0 is out anyway, this is a fairly nice solution.

Frank

 

[zero]

I submitted an addition to Jakarta Commons IO to do this in a
cross-platform manner. It is currently in SVN trunk and is slated to
be included in the next official release. Until then, here is a
direct link to the source in the SVN repository. Being under ASL 2.0
licensing terms, you can grab it and use it any way you want.

http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/jakarta/commons/proper/io/trunk/src/j
ava/org/apache/commons/io/FileSystemUtils.java?view=markup

Until 6.0 is out anyway, this is a fairly nice solution.

Frank

Now that looks like a useful class. Thanks