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| //by Richard Russell, October 2006//\\ \\ If you need to find out the amount of free space on a disk drive you can do that quite easily:\\ \\ | //by Richard Russell, October 2006//\\ \\ If you need to find out the amount of free space on a disk drive you can do that quite easily:\\ \\ | ||
| + | <code bb4w> | ||
| drive$ = " | drive$ = " | ||
| SYS " | SYS " | ||
| gbytes_total = SpC% * BpS% * Total% / 2^30 | gbytes_total = SpC% * BpS% * Total% / 2^30 | ||
| gbytes_free | gbytes_free | ||
| + | </ | ||
| This code fragment sets **gbytes_total** to the total capacity of the drive and **gbytes_free** to the free (unused) space on the drive, both in Gigabytes.\\ \\ If you only want to know the free space as a percentage of the total you don't need to calculate the values in Gbytes but simply use the **Free%** and **Total%** values:\\ \\ | This code fragment sets **gbytes_total** to the total capacity of the drive and **gbytes_free** to the free (unused) space on the drive, both in Gigabytes.\\ \\ If you only want to know the free space as a percentage of the total you don't need to calculate the values in Gbytes but simply use the **Free%** and **Total%** values:\\ \\ | ||
| + | <code bb4w> | ||
| PRINT "The disk has "; | PRINT "The disk has "; | ||
| + | </ | ||
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