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Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 23:56:29 -0400
From: "David Witbrodt" <dawitbro AT alpha DOT delta DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Thanks for statfs() rev. 1.6!
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Martin Str|mberg wrote:
> > I would like to thank the DJGPP-workers and N. A. Bensa for their
> > attempt to get statfs() [rev. 1.6 on CVS] to read the correct drive
> > space information.  It works -- with a slight discrepancy (less than
> > 2% on my machine), but it's good enough for my current purposes.
> 
> As the intent was to have no discrepancies, I'd like to know more.
> What does statfs() say and how do you verify that?

  By "discrepancy" I meant only that Windows 98 and statfs() do not
report the same amount of free space left on my hard drive's
partition.

  Info source          Free bytes reported
  ===========          ===================
  C:->Properties       4 095 901 696 bytes
  Scandisk             4 095 901 696 bytes

  statfs()             4 026 531 840 bytes

  The discrepancy is 69 369 856 bytes, and I don't claim to have a
clue as to which figure is correct.  Maybe neither.  I assume they're
both in the ballpark, and that is more or less all I am looking for. 
Perfection would be nice, and if I had a machine of my own I might do
some research and experimentation to try to find out what is going
on.  I should have a machine of my own in August, so maybe then....


Thanks again,
Dave W.