Find free disk space in python on OS/X

Question

I\'m looking for the number of free bytes on my HD, but have trouble doing so on python.

I\'ve tried the following:

import os

stat = os.statvfs(path         


        

Answer 1

On UNIX:

import os
from collections import namedtuple

_ntuple_diskusage = namedtuple('usage', 'total used free')

def disk_usage(path):
    """Return disk usage statistics about the given path.

    Returned valus is a named tuple with attributes 'total', 'used' and
    'free', which are the amount of total, used and free space, in bytes.
    """
    st = os.statvfs(path)
    free = st.f_bavail * st.f_frsize
    total = st.f_blocks * st.f_frsize
    used = (st.f_blocks - st.f_bfree) * st.f_frsize
    return _ntuple_diskusage(total, used, free)

Usage:

>>> disk_usage('/')
usage(total=21378641920, used=7650934784, free=12641718272)
>>>

For Windows you might use psutil.