Easy DOSFS question

[Victor V. Vengerov]

Thomas Doerfler wrote:

>Hi Etienne,
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>>Hi Thomas,
>>Is there a way to get the free space available on a DOSFS mount?
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>Easy answer: no :-(
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>Basically, you would have to walk through the FAT to 
>find things out. And there is no call to do things 
>like that right now.
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At start of day, you may open dummy file and make binary search of 
maximum free space available by calling seek(,,SEEK_SET), assuming that 
no other file system activity happens. But this is kludge.

Victor


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