smbclient

rperlberg · 12-29-2011, 10:07 AM

How can I use smbclient to determine the amount of free space on a share? When I do a "dir" in smbclient, it displays something like:

52492 blocks of size 8388608. 2407 blocks available

How do I translate that into bytes?

Doc CPU · 12-29-2011, 10:15 AM

Hi there,

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Originally Posted by rperlberg

How can I use smbclient to determine the amount of free space on a share?

really, that's not exactly advanced mathematics, is it?

Quote:

Originally Posted by rperlberg

When I do a "dir" in smbclient, it displays something like:

52492 blocks of size 8388608. 2407 blocks available

How do I translate that into bytes?

By multiplying. It says that one block is 8388608 bytes (which is 8MB), and there are 52492 of them altogether (slightly more than 400GB), and 2407 free (short of 20GB).

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rperlberg · 12-29-2011, 10:23 AM

Thank you. The wording of the message is such that I did not realize that 8388608 is the block size. Thanks for the clarification.