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How to obtain total available disk space in Posix systems?

I’m writing a cross-platform application, and I need the total available disk space. For posix systems (Linux and Macos) I’m using statvfs. I created this C++ method:

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Unfortunately I’m getting quite strange values I can’t understand. For instance: f_blocks = 73242188 f_bsize = 1048576 f_bfree = 50393643 …

Are those values in bits, bytes or anything else? I read here on stackoverflow those should be bytes, but then I would get the total number of bytes free is: f_bsize*f_bfree = 1048576*50393643 but this means 49212.542GB… too much…

Am I doing something wrong with the code or anything else? Thanks!

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I suppose the last two answers are correct and useful. However I solved by simply replacing the function statvfs with the function statfs. The block size is then 4096 as expected and everything seems to be correct. Thanks!

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