std::filesystem::space_info

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Filesystem library

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filesystem::path filesystem::filesystem_error filesystem::directory_entry filesystem::directory_iterator filesystem::recursive_directory_iterator filesystem::file_status	filesystem::space_info filesystem::file_type filesystem::perms filesystem::perm_options filesystem::copy_options filesystem::directory_options filesystem::file_time_type
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filesystem::absolute filesystem::canonicalfilesystem::weakly_canonical filesystem::relativefilesystem::proximate filesystem::copy filesystem::copy_file filesystem::copy_symlink filesystem::create_directory filesystem::create_directories filesystem::create_hard_link filesystem::create_symlink filesystem::create_directory_symlink filesystem::current_path	filesystem::exists filesystem::equivalent filesystem::file_size filesystem::hard_link_count filesystem::last_write_time filesystem::permissions filesystem::read_symlink filesystem::remove filesystem::remove_all filesystem::rename filesystem::resize_file filesystem::space filesystem::status filesystem::symlink_status filesystem::temp_directory_path
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filesystem::is_block_file filesystem::is_character_file filesystem::is_directory filesystem::is_empty filesystem::status_known	filesystem::is_fifo filesystem::is_other filesystem::is_regular_file filesystem::is_socket filesystem::is_symlink

Defined in header <filesystem>
struct space_info { std::uintmax_t capacity; std::uintmax_t free; std::uintmax_t available; };		(since C++17)

Represents the filesystem information as determined by space

The members have the following meaning:

• capacity -- total size of the filesystem, in bytes
• free -- free space on the filesystem, in bytes
• available -- free space available to a non-privileged process (may be equal or less than free)

Example

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#include <iostream>
#include <filesystem>
namespace fs = std::filesystem;
int main()
{
    fs::space_info devi = fs::space("/dev/null");
    fs::space_info tmpi = fs::space("/tmp");

    std::cout << ".        Capacity       Free      Available\n"
              << "/dev:   " << devi.capacity << "   "
              << devi.free << "   " << devi.available  << '\n'
              << "/tmp: " << tmpi.capacity << " "
              << tmpi.free << " " << tmpi.available  << '\n';
}

Possible output:

.         Capacity       Free      Available
/dev:   4175114240   4175110144   4175110144
/tmp: 420651237376 411962273792 390570749952

See also

space (C++17)

determines available free space on the file system (function)