Re: Bug#294206: stat(1) unclear about block size

[Jim Meyering]

Jeroen van Wolffelaar <address@hidden> wrote:
> I've done a bit more reading and googling, and I found statvfs(2):
>
>          struct statvfs {
>            unsigned long  f_bsize;    /* file system block size */
>            unsigned long  f_frsize;   /* fragment size */
>            fsblkcnt_t     f_blocks;   /* size of fs in f_frsize units */
>            fsblkcnt_t     f_bfree;    /* # free blocks */
>            fsblkcnt_t     f_bavail;   /* # free blocks for non-root */
...
> So, since statfs seems deprecated, and statvfs more informative (it
> actually carries the units in which free and total size of filesystems
> is written), I think it would be useful for stat to support statvfs,
> which provides a superset of the functionality of statfs(2).

Does stat's --file-system (-f) option do what you want?

    $ stat -f /
      File: "/"
        ID: 0        Namelen: 255     Type: ext2/ext3
    Blocks: Total: 1032080    Free: 887328     Available: 834894     Size: 4096
    Inodes: Total: 525312     Free: 490241