Question

I am using statfs() which gives me the free blocks available to a non-superuser.

I am unsure how to convert this into KB/MB/GB.

The values that are returned are:

fundamental file system block size: 4096 total data blocks in file system: 3805452 free blocks in fs: 63425 free blocks avail to non-superuser: 63425 total file nodes in file system: 3805450 free file nodes in fs: 63425 

The value I am interested is saying 63425, but I am not sure what that means KB/MB/GB wise.

I am running this on the iPhone and an application is supposed to have access to 2GB I believe, if that much is open on the device, which in my case I do.

So I should be getting a value somewhere around 2G, I would think.

I ran 63425 against an online blocks to MB converter but that gives me a result of 30MB which shouldn’t be the case.

Can anyone help me in figuring out how to get KB/MB/GB from this info?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Block size is 4096 bytes, or 4KB. Thus 63425 blocks is 63425 * 4KB = 253,700KB, which is roughly 248MB.