how to calculate free disk space?

Question

i m working on installer project . where i need to extract files to the disk. how can i calculate the disk space available on hard disk using c#??

Answer 1

Do you need to care? Just write the files to the disk and handle the errors as needed - it's assumed that you'll have to implement rollback anyways in case something non space-related happens, so just treat "no disk space" as just another error that you need to rollback for.

Answer 2

Use the System.IO.DriveInfo class. There are two options available...one that takes disk quotas into account:

var drive = new DriveInfo("c");
long freeSpaceInBytes = drive.AvailableFreeSpace;

and one that simply provides the total free space:

var drive = new DriveInfo("c");
long freeSpaceInBytes = drive.TotalFreeSpace;

Answer 3

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.driveinfo.totalfreespace.aspx

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using System;
using System.IO;

class Test
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        DriveInfo[] allDrives = DriveInfo.GetDrives();

        foreach (DriveInfo d in allDrives)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Drive {0}", d.Name);
            Console.WriteLine("  File type: {0}", d.DriveType);
            if (d.IsReady == true)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("  Volume label: {0}", d.VolumeLabel);
                Console.WriteLine("  File system: {0}", d.DriveFormat);
                Console.WriteLine(
                    "  Available space to current user:{0, 15} bytes", 
                    d.AvailableFreeSpace);

                Console.WriteLine(
                    "  Total available space:          {0, 15} bytes",
                    d.TotalFreeSpace);

                Console.WriteLine(
                    "  Total size of drive:            {0, 15} bytes ",
                    d.TotalSize);
            }
        }
    }
}