From: Dick Davies <rasputnik@...>
Date: 2005-02-05T01:41:35+09:00
Subject: Re: cross platform method to obtain disk usage

* Tim Ferrell <Tim.Ferrell@mcgeecorp.com> [0226 16:26]:
> I am working on something where one of the requirements is to manage 
> disk usage (kind of a rotating backup thing) and I was wondering if 
> anyone could point me in the right direction for determining disk usage 
> from Ruby.
> 
> I have been tinkering with using syscall (I am on Linux) but ultimately 
> I'd like to find a way to do this on Windows as well... Any thoughts? I 
> am not against using C if necessary, but perhaps that can be avoided? :-)
 

How cross-platform? I'd do it with snmp myself, but you might need to tweak
the clients....

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