Comments on: Getting free diskspace in python

By: fitorec

fitorec — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 01:31:34 +0000

tanks!!.

I thought solution the problem with a system call with the df command in linux with the command df, ‘;¬( but your solution is more elegant, does it work for all operating systems?(I mention this for what it says Dan Aquinas).
I think that the function will return the space in mega bytes would be:

import os
def freespace(p):
“”"
Returns the number of free MegaBytes on the drive that “p“ is on
“”"
s = os.statvfs(p)
return (s.f_bsize * s.f_bavail)/(1024*1024)

By: Dan Aquinas

Dan Aquinas — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:42:04 +0000

Be warned that ’statvfs’ is only available on UNIX.
Trying this code with Python 2.5 on Windows XP + SP3 yields following error:

AttributeError: ‘module’ object has no attribute ’statvfs’

By: John Ford

John Ford — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:05:15 +0000

Perfect, I am going to use this to fix purge_builds.py from mozilla bug 512199

By: JT

JT — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:30:40 +0000

Thanks a fourth time, your google ranking is high

By: Sébastien Grenier

Sébastien Grenier — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:40:40 +0000

Thanks a lot! I’m new to python and I’m not a programmer, this piece of code save me time and it’s only 4 lines!

Thank again!

By: Samuel Huckins

Samuel Huckins — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:34:22 +0000

This was just what I was looking for. Thanks!

By: Dan Wentworth

Dan Wentworth — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:48:47 +0000

Hey, thanks for this, I’d been using BFREE, and couldn’t figure out why I was getting inaccurate readings.