[ale] system interface for df info?

Jim ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com
Wed Jan 18 05:53:47 EST 2006


Ah, good old strace.  Thanks for reminding me of a useful tool.

Jim.
Joe Steele wrote:

>An easy way to find out:
>strace df 2>&1 | less
>
>You'll see that it opens /etc/mtab, and then performs an statfs64() on 
>each mounted filesystem found there.
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>--Joe
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>Jim wrote:
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>>Where does df get its information?  I'd like to programatically  get the 
>>same info without calling df.  I've looked at /proc but nothing jumped 
>>out.  Obviously, df doesn't add up all the files to get "used" space, 
>>'cause it doesn't take that long.
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