Detecting Hard Drive Space

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nospam@invalid.invalid - 30 Nov 2006 15:50 GMT

Do any of you know how to detect the size of a(n external) hard drive and
also how to find out how much free space there is?

TIA

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Andrew Thompson - 30 Nov 2006 16:33 GMT

> Do any of you know how to detect the size of a(n external) hard drive and
> also how to find out how much free space there is?

Overview of the saga..
<http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4057701>

Andrew T.

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nospam@invalid.invalid - 01 Dec 2006 07:44 GMT

> Overview of the saga..
> <http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4057701>
>
> Andrew T.

Oh! I didn't realise it was such a hard thing to achieve! And I must admit,
I'm still confused after reading most of that - in the bog standard current
SDK, is it now possible to use a standard method to detect HD space? Or are
people saying there's still a bug after all these years?!

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Andrew Thompson - 01 Dec 2006 08:11 GMT

> > Overview of the saga..
> > <http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4057701>

...
(please trim 'sig's from replies)

> Oh! I didn't realise it was such a hard thing to achieve! And I must admit,
> I'm still confused after reading most of that -

I simply skimmed it, after finding the link from a
post on the forum that had referred to it (I recalled
it had been discussed on a number of occasions,
but have had no direct need for 'free space' type
methods - so have not gone deeply into it)

>...in the bog standard current
> SDK, is it now possible to use a standard method to detect HD space?

My understanding. 1.6 - yes. 1.1 - 1.5 no, not without
some Jakarta commons thing (? I thought I saw some
reference, in the thread).

>...Or are
> people saying there's still a bug after all these years?!

(shrug) 'people' say lots of things, I think it partly
depends on their perspective.. (I tend to think of
it as a sorely missing functionality, more an RFE,
than any sort of 'bug'.)

Andrew T.

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nospam@invalid.invalid - 01 Dec 2006 09:26 GMT

> My understanding. 1.6 - yes. 1.1 - 1.5 no, not without
> some Jakarta commons thing (? I thought I saw some
> reference, in the thread).

OK thanks. Now I just have to find out what that method is! Anyone?!

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Thomas Fritsch - 01 Dec 2006 10:17 GMT

nospam@invalid.invalid schrieb:

>>My understanding. 1.6 - yes. 1.1 - 1.5 no, not without
>>some Jakarta commons thing (? I thought I saw some
>>reference, in the thread).
>
> OK thanks. Now I just have to find out what that method is! Anyone?!

<http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/io/File.html#getFreeSpace()>

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nospam@invalid.invalid - 01 Dec 2006 11:01 GMT

> <http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/io/File.html#getFreeSpace()>

Hallelujah! Thanks Thomas!

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