From: ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se (Martin Str|mberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: available space on fat32 fs
Date: 2 Jun 1999 16:57:06 GMT
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Jesper Ødum Nielsen (jni AT cpk DOT auc DOT dk) wrote:
: I need to know the size of the free space on a fat32 drive, but the
: current _dos_getdiskfree() or statfs() cannot report sizes larger than
: 2GB.  
: 
: Eli Zaretskii has previously answered in a posting that __dpmi_int()
: can be used to obtain the relevant information from DOS.  With no luck
: I searched Ralph Brown's interrupt list for a useful function.  Even
: if I find one, I'm not quite sure how to use it.  So some hints are
: welcome if you know how to do this.

Three possible solutions:

1.  Wait for the release of libc version 2.04, which I hope will
    contain my patches for more FAT32 support. Not recommended as we
    don't know when that'll happen.

2.  Search the mail archives of djgpp-workers at
    <http://www.delorie.com> for FAT32. You'll find my patch(es)
    mentioned in 1.

3.  Look closer at RBIL INT21/AX=0x7302, which my patch(es) in 1. and
    2. uses.


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							MartinS