From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-02-05T01:50:42+09:00
Subject: Re: cross platform method to obtain disk usage


"Tim Ferrell" <Tim.Ferrell@mcgeecorp.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:4203A207.7040102@mcgeecorp.com...
> 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?
:-)

Hm, probably this is helpful:
http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/filesystem/

Kind regards

    robert