From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2005-02-05T02:30:42+09:00
Subject: Re: cross platform method to obtain disk usage

Caio Tiago Oliveira wrote:
> Robert Klemme, 4/2/2005 13:50:
> > "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/
>
> The page says: "Tested on Linux and Solaris.".
> I don't think it works on windows.
>
> "'statvfs' and 'getmntent'"...

I've tested it on FreeBSD and HP-UX as well.

No, it doesn't work on Windows.  I've been mulling over a
win32-filesystem package for win32utils, but I don't know that it's
realistic to keep a unified API between *nix and Win32.  But, I'll mull
it over.

Regards,

Dan