From: Le Wang <lewang@?.?.bigfoot.com> (nospam)
Date: 2002-01-01T09:43:40+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29919] Re: How to check free diskspace?

aargh,

`df #{Dir.pwd}`.split("\n")[1].split[1]

 it is then.

This is ugly.

-lw

On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 22:09:21 GMT, "Mark Hahn" <mchahn@facelink.com>
wrote:

>
>In both Ruby and Java, space-checking in volumes is missing.  For Java I had
>to write a different native extension for each platform.  In Ruby you can
>use system() (as you suggest)but it is still platform dependent.
>
>This is all quite weird since the concept of how many bytes are free on a
>volume is a quite platform-free concept.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Le Wang [mailto:lewang@?.?.bigfoot.com (nospam)]
>Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 1:23 PM
>To: ruby-talk ML; undisclosed-recipients:
>Subject: [ruby-talk:29895] How to check free diskspace?
>
>
>Hi all,
>
>I've checked "Programming Ruby", and searched the ML to no avail.  So
>how do you check free disk space, other than to parse 'df' output?
>
>Thanks
>-lw