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From: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th>
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Subject: Get the empty space on a file system
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Hi,

I am writing a C application that would store files in a directory.

Before it starts storing files, I would like the application to check
is there is enough space in the file system.

How to:

1) knowing the name of the directory, how toknow the file system it
   belongs to (not considering symbolic links, I can decide that the
   directory is always a real path);

2) knowing the file system from 1), how to check the remaining space
   in the file system?

Thanks in advance,

olivier