Re: free space on a volume

Good point, Stefan - thanks.

- Roger

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Subject: [sftalk] Re: free space on a volume

Dr. Roger Dube (27.03. 14:43):

> I need to be able to get the amount of free space remaining on a volume so
> that we do not write a file onto a volume that has insufficient space left
-
> one approach would be to try writing and see if we get an error - not very
> elegant - the other approach would be to check the free space remaining
and
> compare to the file size BEFORE we even start writing. has anyone seen a
way
> to get the volume free space information?

You're makeing a decision in software that the user might want to
make for himself. If I have 100 MB text files (numeric data in
CSV from some highly scientific gadgets), I might be able to
squeeze it into the last 30 free MB of an NTFS partition, if I
activated the compression for the target folder.

So I'd recommend "inform and ask" as alternate strategy here.

s.

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