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STATVFS(3) Linux Programmer's Manual STATVFS(3) statvfs, fstatvfs - get filesystem statistics
#include <sys/statvfs.h> int statvfs(const char *path, struct statvfs *buf); int fstatvfs(int fd, struct statvfs *buf);
The function statvfs() returns information about a mounted filesystem. path is the pathname of any file within the mounted filesystem. buf is a pointer to a statvfs structure defined approximately as follows: struct statvfs { unsigned long f_bsize; /* Filesystem block size */ unsigned long f_frsize; /* Fragment size */ fsblkcnt_t f_blocks; /* Size of fs in f_frsize units */ fsblkcnt_t f_bfree; /* Number of free blocks */ fsblkcnt_t f_bavail; /* Number of free blocks for unprivileged users */ fsfilcnt_t f_files; /* Number of inodes */ fsfilcnt_t f_ffree; /* Number of free inodes */ fsfilcnt_t f_favail; /* Number of free inodes for unprivileged users */ unsigned long f_fsid; /* Filesystem ID */ unsigned long f_flag; /* Mount flags */ unsigned long f_namemax; /* Maximum filename length */ }; Here the types fsblkcnt_t and fsfilcnt_t are defined in <sys/types.h>. Both used to be unsigned long. The field f_flag is a bit mask indicating various options that were employed when mounting this filesystem. It contains zero or more of the following flags: ST_MANDLOCK Mandatory locking is permitted on the filesystem (see fcntl(2)). ST_NOATIME Do not update access times; see mount(2). ST_NODEV Disallow access to device special files on this filesystem. ST_NODIRATIME Do not update directory access times; see mount(2). ST_NOEXEC Execution of programs is disallowed on this filesystem. ST_NOSUID The set-user-ID and set-group-ID bits are ignored by exec(3) for executable files on this filesystem ST_RDONLY This filesystem is mounted read-only. ST_RELATIME Update atime relative to mtime/ctime; see mount(2). ST_SYNCHRONOUS Writes are synched to the filesystem immediately (see the description of O_SYNC in open(2)). It is unspecified whether all members of the returned struct have meaningful values on all filesystems. fstatvfs() returns the same information about an open file referenced by descriptor fd. On success, zero is returned. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately.
EACCES (statvfs()) Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix of path. (See also path_resolution(7).) EBADF (fstatvfs()) fd is not a valid open file descriptor. EFAULT Buf or path points to an invalid address. EINTR This call was interrupted by a signal; see signal(7). EIO An I/O error occurred while reading from the filesystem. ELOOP (statvfs()) Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating path. ENAMETOOLONG (statvfs()) path is too long. ENOENT (statvfs()) The file referred to by path does not exist. ENOMEM Insufficient kernel memory was available. ENOSYS The filesystem does not support this call. ENOTDIR (statvfs()) A component of the path prefix of path is not a directory. EOVERFLOW Some values were too large to be represented in the returned struct.
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7). ┌──────────────────────┬───────────────┬─────────┐ │Interface │ Attribute │ Value │ ├──────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┤ │statvfs(), fstatvfs() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │ └──────────────────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘
POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008. Only the ST_NOSUID and ST_RDONLY flags of the f_flag field are specified in POSIX.1. To obtain definitions of the remaining flags, one must define _GNU_SOURCE.
The Linux kernel has system calls statfs(2) and fstatfs(2) to support this library call. In glibc versions before 2.13, statvfs() populated the bits of the f_flag field by scanning the mount options shown in /proc/mounts. However, starting with Linux 2.6.36, the underlying statfs(2) system call provides the necessary information via the f_flags field, and since glibc version 2.13, the statvfs() function will use information from that field rather than scanning /proc/mounts. The glibc implementations of pathconf(path, _PC_REC_XFER_ALIGN); pathconf(path, _PC_ALLOC_SIZE_MIN); pathconf(path, _PC_REC_MIN_XFER_SIZE); respectively use the f_frsize, f_frsize, and f_bsize fields returned by a call to statvfs() with the argument path.
statfs(2)
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