Drive Space!

[dave1979bell]

does anyone know what i would use to get the free space on my local hard drive.

I am looking for something that I can pass the drive letter into.

something that would work like this... (i know this is not actuall code just givving an example of how i would expect it to function)



intFreeSpace = localmachine.drivespace.freespace(driveletter);

Thanks in Advance,

David

[wildfrog]

You could do something like this:

[STAThread]
static void Main(string[] args)
{
    Console.WriteLine("Free space {0}\n", GetDiskSpace("c:"));
}

static UInt64 GetDiskSpace(string drive)
{
    // make it upper
    drive = drive.ToUpper();

    // enumerate disks
    ManagementClass pDiskClass = new ManagementClass("Win32_LogicalDisk");
    ManagementObjectCollection pDisks = pDiskClass.GetInstances();

    foreach (ManagementObject pDisk in pDisks)
        if (drive.CompareTo((string)pDisk["name"]) == 0)
            return (UInt64) pDisk["FreeSpace"];

    // disk not found
    return 0;
}

- petter