# Re: Disk Free Space (Re: Who Wants to Be a Scripting Guy?)

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**Created:** [May 19, 2006, 4:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-disk-free-space-re-who-wants-to-be-a-scripting-guy/61040 "2006-05-19T16:17:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![BergerS\_Daniel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@BergerS\_Daniel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/BergerS_Daniel)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2006, 4:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-disk-free-space-re-who-wants-to-be-a-scripting-guy/61040/1 "2006-05-19T16:17:39Z")

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> should be  
> `df -k #{dir}`[/\n.{20} (\d+)/, 1].to\_i \* 1024
> 
> Cheers,  
> Dave

See the “filesystem” package on the RAA for an actual C extension.  
Doesn’t support Windows yet, though. It’s on the “TODO” list for the  
Win32Utils project.

Dan

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