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Title: Free disk space

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1+It is not obvious how to get the free space, in a directory. Here is working code from the [[CudaText]] project.
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3+``` Pascal
4+uses SysUtils;
5+
6+function AppDiskGetFreeSpace(const fn: string): Int64;
7+begin
8+ {$ifdef linux}
9+ //this crashes on FreeBSD 12 x64
10+ exit(SysUtils.DiskFree(SysUtils.AddDisk(ExtractFileDir(fn))));
11+ {$endif}
12+
13+ {$ifdef windows}
14+ exit(SysUtils.DiskFree(SysUtils.GetDriveIDFromLetter(ExtractFileDrive(fn))));
15+ {$endif}
16+
17+ //cannot detect
18+ exit(-1);
19+end;
20+```
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22+The "fn" parameter should be any filename in the needed directory. E.g. if we need to get free space in the directory '/home/user/media', pass parameter fn as '/home/user/media/a'.
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24+Note: code does not support Unixes other than Linux, because real tests show, that code for "\$ifdef linux" part is crashing on FreeBSD 12 x64. Under FPC 3.2-fixes. [Gitlab issue](https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc/source/-/issues/39428).
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27+*From the Free Pascal wiki, page "Free disk space", as it stood on 2022-01-30 after a change by Alextp, out of the wiki's dump of 2024-05-26. Copyright stays with the author who wrote it, according to the old wiki's [[Licensing]] page. If you have concerns about this material, [message the admin](/wiki-contact).*
28+Category: Code Snippets

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