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[Python-Dev] Function in os module for available disk space, why not?

[Python-Dev] Function in os module for available disk space, why not?Greg Ewing greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Tue, 20 Mar 2001 12:19:35 +1200 (NZST)
"M.-A. Lemburg" <mal@lemburg.com>:

> Actually opening a file in record mode and then using
> file.seek() should work on many platforms.

Not on Unix! No space is actually allocated until you
write something, regardless of where you seek to. And
then only the blocks that you touch (files can have
holes in them).

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