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1.\" Copyright (C) 1995, Thomas K. Dyas <tdyas@eden.rutgers.edu>
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23.\" Created 1995-08-09 Thomas K. Dyas <tdyas@eden.rutgers.edu>
24.\" Modified 1997-01-31 by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
25.\" Modified 2001-03-22 by aeb
26.\" Modified 2003-08-04 by aeb
27.\"
28.TH USTAT 2 2003-08-04 "Linux 2.4" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
29.SH NAME
30ustat \- get file system statistics
31.SH SYNOPSIS
32.nf
33.B #include <sys/types.h>
34.br
35.BR "#include <unistd.h>" " /* libc[45] */"
36.br
37.BR "#include <ustat.h>" " /* glibc2 */"
38.sp
39.BI "int ustat(dev_t " dev ", struct ustat *" ubuf );
40.SH DESCRIPTION
e511ffb6 41.BR ustat ()
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42returns information about a mounted file system.
43.I dev
44is a device number identifying a device containing
45a mounted file system.
46.I ubuf
cf0a9ace 47is a pointer to a \fIustat\fP structure that contains the following
fea681da 48members:
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49.RS
50.nf
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51
52daddr_t f_tfree; /* Total free blocks */
53ino_t f_tinode; /* Number of free inodes */
54char f_fname[6]; /* Filsys name */
55char f_fpack[6]; /* Filsys pack name */
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56.fi
57.RE
58.PP
fea681da 59The last two fields, f_fname and f_fpack, are not implemented and will
28d88c17 60always be filled with null bytes ('\\0').
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61.SH "RETURN VALUE"
62On success, zero is returned and the ustat structure pointed to by
63.I ubuf
64will be filled in. On error, \-1 is returned, and
65.I errno
66is set appropriately.
67.SH ERRORS
68.TP
69.B EFAULT
70.I ubuf
71points outside of your accessible address space.
72.TP
73.B EINVAL
74.I dev
75does not refer to a device containing a mounted file system.
76.TP
77.B ENOSYS
78The mounted file system referenced by
79.I dev
80does not support this operation, or any version of Linux before
811.3.16.
82.SH "CONFORMING TO"
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83SVr4.
84.\" SVr4 documents additional error conditions ENOLINK, ECOMM, and EINTR
85.\" but has no ENOSYS condition.
fea681da 86.SH NOTES
e511ffb6 87.BR ustat ()
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88is deprecated and has only been provided for compatibility.
89All new programs should use
90.BR statfs (2)
91instead.
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92.SH "HP-UX NOTES"
93The HP-UX version of the
94.I ustat
95structure has an additional field,
96.IR f_blksize ,
97that is unknown elsewhere.
98HP-UX warns:
fea681da 99For some file systems, the number of free inodes does not change.
8729177b 100Such file systems will return \-1 in the field
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101.IR f_tinode .
102.\" Some software tries to use this in order to test whether the
103.\" underlying filesystem is NFS.
104For some file systems, inodes are dynamically allocated.
105Such file systems will return the current number of free inodes.
106.SH "SEE ALSO"
107.BR stat (2),
108.BR statfs (2)