Get free disk space

Solution 1:

this works for me...

using System.IO;

private long GetTotalFreeSpace(string driveName)
{
    foreach (DriveInfo drive in DriveInfo.GetDrives())
    {
        if (drive.IsReady && drive.Name == driveName)
        {
            return drive.TotalFreeSpace;
        }
    }
    return -1;
}

good luck!

Solution 2:

Working code snippet using GetDiskFreeSpaceEx from link by RichardOD.

// Pinvoke for API function
[DllImport("kernel32.dll", SetLastError = true, CharSet = CharSet.Auto)]
[return: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.Bool)]
public static extern bool GetDiskFreeSpaceEx(string lpDirectoryName,
out ulong lpFreeBytesAvailable,
out ulong lpTotalNumberOfBytes,
out ulong lpTotalNumberOfFreeBytes);

public static bool DriveFreeBytes(string folderName, out ulong freespace)
{
    freespace = 0;
    if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(folderName))
    {
        throw new ArgumentNullException("folderName");
    }

    if (!folderName.EndsWith("\\"))
    {
        folderName += '\\';
    }

    ulong free = 0, dummy1 = 0, dummy2 = 0;

    if (GetDiskFreeSpaceEx(folderName, out free, out dummy1, out dummy2))
    {
        freespace = free;
        return true;
    }
    else
    {
        return false;
    }
}

Solution 3:

DriveInfo will help you with some of those (but it doesn't work with UNC paths), but really I think you will need to use GetDiskFreeSpaceEx. You can probably achieve some functionality with WMI. GetDiskFreeSpaceEx looks like your best bet.

Chances are you will probably have to clean up your paths to get it to work properly.

Solution 4:

using System;
using System.IO;

class Test
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        DriveInfo[] allDrives = DriveInfo.GetDrives();

        foreach (DriveInfo d in allDrives)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Drive {0}", d.Name);
            Console.WriteLine("  Drive type: {0}", d.DriveType);
            if (d.IsReady == true)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("  Volume label: {0}", d.VolumeLabel);
                Console.WriteLine("  File system: {0}", d.DriveFormat);
                Console.WriteLine(
                    "  Available space to current user:{0, 15} bytes", 
                    d.AvailableFreeSpace);

                Console.WriteLine(
                    "  Total available space:          {0, 15} bytes",
                    d.TotalFreeSpace);

                Console.WriteLine(
                    "  Total size of drive:            {0, 15} bytes ",
                    d.TotalSize);
            }
        }
    }
}
/* 
This code produces output similar to the following:

Drive A:\
  Drive type: Removable
Drive C:\
  Drive type: Fixed
  Volume label: 
  File system: FAT32
  Available space to current user:     4770430976 bytes
  Total available space:               4770430976 bytes
  Total size of drive:                10731683840 bytes 
Drive D:\
  Drive type: Fixed
  Volume label: 
  File system: NTFS
  Available space to current user:    15114977280 bytes
  Total available space:              15114977280 bytes
  Total size of drive:                25958948864 bytes 
Drive E:\
  Drive type: CDRom

The actual output of this code will vary based on machine and the permissions
granted to the user executing it.
*/

Solution 5:

Here is a refactored and simplified version of the @sasha_gud answer:

    [DllImport("kernel32.dll", SetLastError = true, CharSet = CharSet.Unicode)]
    [return: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.Bool)]
    public static extern bool GetDiskFreeSpaceEx(string lpDirectoryName,
        out ulong lpFreeBytesAvailable,
        out ulong lpTotalNumberOfBytes,
        out ulong lpTotalNumberOfFreeBytes);

    public static ulong GetDiskFreeSpace(string path)
    {
        if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(path))
        {
            throw new ArgumentNullException("path");
        }

        ulong dummy = 0;

        if (!GetDiskFreeSpaceEx(path, out ulong freeSpace, out dummy, out dummy))
        {
            throw new Win32Exception(Marshal.GetLastWin32Error());
        }

        return freeSpace;
    }