From: Toki Toki <toki84@...>
Date: 2008-04-28T05:54:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Free disk space with VMI in megabyte

Michael Brooks wrote:
> 
> Hello Toki:
> 
> The drive.FreeSpace is being returned as a string (which may also be a
> nil).  Change #{drive.FreeSpace} to #{drive.FreeSpace.class} to see what
> I mean.  You'll need to convert the FreeSpace to a number before you can
> use math operators / functions with it.  Below is an example of how to
> do that with the #to_f (aka "to float") method:
> 
> disk.each {|drive| puts "#{drive.DeviceID} #{(drive.FreeSpace.to_f /
> 1024) / 1024}"}
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> Michael

Thanks a lot for the help and the explanation, I didn't know that 
"FreeSpace" by default is returned as a string.

Best regards.
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