.\" Copyright (C) 2003 Andries Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl) .\" .\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this .\" manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are .\" preserved on all copies. .\" .\" Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this .\" manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the .\" entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a .\" permission notice identical to this one. .\" .\" Since the Linux kernel and libraries are constantly changing, this .\" manual page may be incorrect or out-of-date. The author(s) assume no .\" responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from .\" the use of the information contained herein. The author(s) may not .\" have taken the same level of care in the production of this manual, .\" which is licensed free of charge, as they might when working .\" professionally. .\" .\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by .\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work. .\" .\" Modified 2003-08-17 by Walter Harms .\" Modified 2004-06-23 by Michael Kerrisk .\" .TH STATFS 2 2010-11-21 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME statfs, fstatfs \- get file system statistics .SH SYNOPSIS .BR "#include " "/* or */" .sp .BI "int statfs(const char *" path ", struct statfs *" buf ); .br .BI "int fstatfs(int " fd ", struct statfs *" buf ); .SH DESCRIPTION The function .BR statfs () returns information about a mounted file system. .I path is the pathname of any file within the mounted file system. .I buf is a pointer to a .I statfs structure defined approximately as follows: .in +4n .nf #if __WORDSIZE == 32 /* System word size */ # define __SWORD_TYPE int #else /* __WORDSIZE == 64 */ # define __SWORD_TYPE long int #endif struct statfs { __SWORD_TYPE f_type; /* type of file system (see below) */ __SWORD_TYPE f_bsize; /* optimal transfer block size */ fsblkcnt_t f_blocks; /* total data blocks in file system */ fsblkcnt_t f_bfree; /* free blocks in fs */ fsblkcnt_t f_bavail; /* free blocks available to unprivileged user */ fsfilcnt_t f_files; /* total file nodes in file system */ fsfilcnt_t f_ffree; /* free file nodes in fs */ fsid_t f_fsid; /* file system id */ __SWORD_TYPE f_namelen; /* maximum length of filenames */ __SWORD_TYPE f_frsize; /* fragment size (since Linux 2.6) */ __SWORD_TYPE f_spare[5]; }; File system types: ADFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0xadf5 AFFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0xADFF BEFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0x42465331 BFS_MAGIC 0x1BADFACE CIFS_MAGIC_NUMBER 0xFF534D42 CODA_SUPER_MAGIC 0x73757245 COH_SUPER_MAGIC 0x012FF7B7 CRAMFS_MAGIC 0x28cd3d45 DEVFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0x1373 EFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0x00414A53 EXT_SUPER_MAGIC 0x137D EXT2_OLD_SUPER_MAGIC 0xEF51 EXT2_SUPER_MAGIC 0xEF53 EXT3_SUPER_MAGIC 0xEF53 EXT4_SUPER_MAGIC 0xEF53 HFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0x4244 HPFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0xF995E849 HUGETLBFS_MAGIC 0x958458f6 ISOFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0x9660 JFFS2_SUPER_MAGIC 0x72b6 JFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0x3153464a MINIX_SUPER_MAGIC 0x137F /* orig. minix */ MINIX_SUPER_MAGIC2 0x138F /* 30 char minix */ MINIX2_SUPER_MAGIC 0x2468 /* minix V2 */ MINIX2_SUPER_MAGIC2 0x2478 /* minix V2, 30 char names */ MSDOS_SUPER_MAGIC 0x4d44 NCP_SUPER_MAGIC 0x564c NFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0x6969 NTFS_SB_MAGIC 0x5346544e OPENPROM_SUPER_MAGIC 0x9fa1 PROC_SUPER_MAGIC 0x9fa0 QNX4_SUPER_MAGIC 0x002f REISERFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0x52654973 ROMFS_MAGIC 0x7275 SMB_SUPER_MAGIC 0x517B SYSV2_SUPER_MAGIC 0x012FF7B6 SYSV4_SUPER_MAGIC 0x012FF7B5 TMPFS_MAGIC 0x01021994 UDF_SUPER_MAGIC 0x15013346 UFS_MAGIC 0x00011954 USBDEVICE_SUPER_MAGIC 0x9fa2 VXFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0xa501FCF5 XENIX_SUPER_MAGIC 0x012FF7B4 XFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0x58465342 _XIAFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0x012FD16D .fi .in .PP Nobody knows what .I f_fsid is supposed to contain (but see below). .PP Fields that are undefined for a particular file system are set to 0. .BR fstatfs () returns the same information about an open file referenced by descriptor .IR fd . .SH "RETURN VALUE" On success, zero is returned. On error, \-1 is returned, and .I errno is set appropriately. .SH ERRORS .TP .B EACCES .RB ( statfs ()) Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix of .IR path . (See also .BR path_resolution (7).) .TP .B EBADF .RB ( fstatfs ()) .I fd is not a valid open file descriptor. .TP .B EFAULT .I buf or .I path points to an invalid address. .TP .B EINTR This call was interrupted by a signal. .TP .B EIO An I/O error occurred while reading from the file system. .TP .B ELOOP .RB ( statfs ()) Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating .IR path . .TP .B ENAMETOOLONG .RB ( statfs ()) .I path is too long. .TP .B ENOENT .RB ( statfs ()) The file referred to by .I path does not exist. .TP .B ENOMEM Insufficient kernel memory was available. .TP .B ENOSYS The file system does not support this call. .TP .B ENOTDIR .RB ( statfs ()) A component of the path prefix of .I path is not a directory. .TP .B EOVERFLOW Some values were too large to be represented in the returned struct. .SH "CONFORMING TO" Linux-specific. The Linux .BR statfs () was inspired by the 4.4BSD one (but they do not use the same structure). .SH NOTES The original Linux .BR statfs () and .BR fstatfs () system calls were not designed with extremely large file sizes in mind. Subsequently, Linux 2.6 added new .BR statfs64 () and .BR fstatfs64 () system calls that employ a new structure, .IR statfs64 . The new structure contains the same fields as the original .I statfs structure, but the sizes of various fields are increased, to accommodate large file sizes. The glibc .BR statfs () and .BR fstatfs () wrapper functions transparently deal with the kernel differences. Some systems only have \fI\fP, other systems also have \fI\fP, where the former includes the latter. So it seems including the former is the best choice. LSB has deprecated the library calls .BR statfs () and .BR fstatfs () and tells us to use .BR statvfs (2) and .BR fstatvfs (2) instead. .SS The f_fsid field Solaris, Irix and POSIX have a system call .BR statvfs (2) that returns a .I "struct statvfs" (defined in .IR ) containing an .I "unsigned long" .IR f_fsid . Linux, SunOS, HP-UX, 4.4BSD have a system call .BR statfs () that returns a .I "struct statfs" (defined in .IR ) containing a .I fsid_t .IR f_fsid , where .I fsid_t is defined as .IR "struct { int val[2]; }" . The same holds for FreeBSD, except that it uses the include file .IR . The general idea is that .I f_fsid contains some random stuff such that the pair .RI ( f_fsid , ino ) uniquely determines a file. Some operating systems use (a variation on) the device number, or the device number combined with the file-system type. Several OSes restrict giving out the .I f_fsid field to the superuser only (and zero it for unprivileged users), because this field is used in the filehandle of the file system when NFS-exported, and giving it out is a security concern. .LP Under some operating systems the .I fsid can be used as second argument to the .BR sysfs (2) system call. .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR stat (2), .BR statvfs (2), .BR path_resolution (7) .SH COLOPHON This page is part of release 3.44 of the Linux .I man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.