I am new to perl world. I written one perl script for calculating free disk space. But whenever output generates, it gives me different number than what actually shows using df -h command.
So my requirement is i want to show specific mounted free disk space. E.g I want to show only /boot "Use%" figure and it should match with df -h command figure.
Please find my script for reference as follows by clicking link named Actual Script.
The df
function from Filesys::Df
module returns a reference to a hash (perldoc perlreftut
) with fs
info fields
$VAR1 = {
user_bavail => '170614.21875',
user_blocks => '179796.8203125',
user_fused => 408762,
used => '9182.6015625',
fused => 408762,
bavail => '170614.21875',
user_used => '9182.6015625',
su_bavail => '180077.20703125',
ffree => 11863876,
fper => 3,
user_favail => 11863876,
favail => 11863876,
user_files => 12272638,
blocks => '189259.80859375',
su_favail => 11863876,
files => 12272638,
per => 5,
su_blocks => '189259.80859375',
bfree => '180077.20703125',
su_files => 12272638
};
So you free space is
my $ref = df($dir, 1);
print $ref->{bavail} . " bytes\n";