How do I find the size of mounted USB flash drive in C?

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I have a flash drive device (/dev/sda1) mounted to /mnt on an embedded linux system (kernel 2.6.23). Using C how do I work out the size of the drive?

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On Linux, if you’re not worried about portability (C doesn’t know about drives, so any such specific code will be unportable), use statfs():

  struct statfs fsb;

  if(statfs("/mnt", &fsb) == 0)
    printf("device has %ld blocks, each %ld bytesn", fsb.f_blocks, fsb.f_bsize);

Accepted Answer

On Linux, if you&#8217;re not worried about portability (C doesn&#8217;t know about drives, so any such specific code will be unportable), use statfs():  struct statfs fsb;  if(statfs("/mnt", &fsb) == 0)    printf("device has %ld blocks, each %ld bytesn", fsb.f_blocks, fsb.f_bsize);

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