Re: File

From:
Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@epenguin.zzn.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Sat, 28 Apr 2007 20:40:22 GMT
Message-ID:
<WiOYh.3442$iR2.2405@trnddc05>
Ravi wrote:

import java.io.File;
class FileDemo {
        public static void main(String args[]) {
                File f1 = new File("/home/ravi/abc");
                System.out.println("Path: "+f1.getPath());
                System.out.println("Absolute path:
"+f1.getAbsolutePath());
                System.out.println("Size: "+f1.length());
                System.out.println("getFreeSpace:
"+f1.getFreeSpace());
                System.out.println("getTotalSpace:
"+f1.getTotalSpace());
                System.out.println("getUsableSpace:
"+f1.getUsableSpace());
                f1.deleteOnExit();
        }
}

I use GNU/Linux and the problem is that the space reported by the thre
functions is not correct. Please explain.


What is this program telling you and what do you think should be the
correct answer (and why)? The latter three functions are not guaranteed
to be able to get correct information (cf.
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/io/File.html#getTotalSpace())...

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