1STATFS(2) Linux Programmer's Manual STATFS(2)
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6 statfs, fstatfs - get filesystem statistics
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9 #include <sys/vfs.h> /* or <sys/statfs.h> */
10 int statfs(const char *path, struct statfs *buf);
12 int fstatfs(int fd, struct statfs *buf);
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15 The statfs() system call returns information about a mounted filesys‐
16 tem. path is the pathname of any file within the mounted filesystem.
17 buf is a pointer to a statfs structure defined approximately as fol‐
18 lows:
19 struct statfs {
21 __fsword_t f_type; /* Type of filesystem (see below) */
22 __fsword_t f_bsize; /* Optimal transfer block size */
23 fsblkcnt_t f_blocks; /* Total data blocks in filesystem */
24 fsblkcnt_t f_bfree; /* Free blocks in filesystem */
25 fsblkcnt_t f_bavail; /* Free blocks available to
26 unprivileged user */
27 fsfilcnt_t f_files; /* Total file nodes in filesystem */
28 fsfilcnt_t f_ffree; /* Free file nodes in filesystem */
29 fsid_t f_fsid; /* Filesystem ID */
30 __fsword_t f_namelen; /* Maximum length of filenames */
31 __fsword_t f_frsize; /* Fragment size (since Linux 2.6) */
32 __fsword_t f_flags; /* Mount flags of filesystem
33 (since Linux 2.6.36) */
34 __fsword_t f_spare[xxx];
35 /* Padding bytes reserved for future use */
36 };
37 The following filesystem types may appear in f_type:
39 ADFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0xadf5
41 AFFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0xadff
42 AFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0x5346414f
43 ANON_INODE_FS_MAGIC 0x09041934 /* Anonymous inode FS (for
44 pseudofiles that have no name;
45 e.g., epoll, signalfd, bpf) */
46 AUTOFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0x0187
47 BDEVFS_MAGIC 0x62646576
48 BEFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0x42465331
49 BFS_MAGIC 0x1badface
50 BINFMTFS_MAGIC 0x42494e4d
51 BPF_FS_MAGIC 0xcafe4a11
52 BTRFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0x9123683e
53 BTRFS_TEST_MAGIC 0x73727279
54 CGROUP_SUPER_MAGIC 0x27e0eb /* Cgroup pseudo FS */
55 CGROUP2_SUPER_MAGIC 0x63677270 /* Cgroup v2 pseudo FS */
56 CIFS_MAGIC_NUMBER 0xff534d42
57 CODA_SUPER_MAGIC 0x73757245
58 COH_SUPER_MAGIC 0x012ff7b7
59 CRAMFS_MAGIC 0x28cd3d45
60 DEBUGFS_MAGIC 0x64626720
61 DEVFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0x1373 /* Linux 2.6.17 and earlier */
62 DEVPTS_SUPER_MAGIC 0x1cd1
63 ECRYPTFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0xf15f
64 EFIVARFS_MAGIC 0xde5e81e4
65 EFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0x00414a53
66 EXT_SUPER_MAGIC 0x137d /* Linux 2.0 and earlier */
67 EXT2_OLD_SUPER_MAGIC 0xef51
68 EXT2_SUPER_MAGIC 0xef53
69 EXT3_SUPER_MAGIC 0xef53
70 EXT4_SUPER_MAGIC 0xef53
71 F2FS_SUPER_MAGIC 0xf2f52010
72 FUSE_SUPER_MAGIC 0x65735546
73 FUTEXFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0xbad1dea /* Unused */
74 HFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0x4244
75 HOSTFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0x00c0ffee
76 HPFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0xf995e849
77 HUGETLBFS_MAGIC 0x958458f6
78 ISOFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0x9660
79 JFFS2_SUPER_MAGIC 0x72b6
80 JFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0x3153464a
81 MINIX_SUPER_MAGIC 0x137f /* original minix FS */
82 MINIX_SUPER_MAGIC2 0x138f /* 30 char minix FS */
83 MINIX2_SUPER_MAGIC 0x2468 /* minix V2 FS */
84 MINIX2_SUPER_MAGIC2 0x2478 /* minix V2 FS, 30 char names */
85 MINIX3_SUPER_MAGIC 0x4d5a /* minix V3 FS, 60 char names */
86 MQUEUE_MAGIC 0x19800202 /* POSIX message queue FS */
87 MSDOS_SUPER_MAGIC 0x4d44
88 MTD_INODE_FS_MAGIC 0x11307854
89 NCP_SUPER_MAGIC 0x564c
90 NFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0x6969
91 NILFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0x3434
92 NSFS_MAGIC 0x6e736673
93 NTFS_SB_MAGIC 0x5346544e
94 OCFS2_SUPER_MAGIC 0x7461636f
95 OPENPROM_SUPER_MAGIC 0x9fa1
96 OVERLAYFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0x794c7630
97 PIPEFS_MAGIC 0x50495045
98 PROC_SUPER_MAGIC 0x9fa0 /* /proc FS */
99 PSTOREFS_MAGIC 0x6165676c
100 QNX4_SUPER_MAGIC 0x002f
101 QNX6_SUPER_MAGIC 0x68191122
102 RAMFS_MAGIC 0x858458f6
103 REISERFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0x52654973
104 ROMFS_MAGIC 0x7275
105 SECURITYFS_MAGIC 0x73636673
106 SELINUX_MAGIC 0xf97cff8c
107 SMACK_MAGIC 0x43415d53
108 SMB_SUPER_MAGIC 0x517b
109 SOCKFS_MAGIC 0x534f434b
110 SQUASHFS_MAGIC 0x73717368
111 SYSFS_MAGIC 0x62656572
112 SYSV2_SUPER_MAGIC 0x012ff7b6
113 SYSV4_SUPER_MAGIC 0x012ff7b5
114 TMPFS_MAGIC 0x01021994
115 TRACEFS_MAGIC 0x74726163
116 UDF_SUPER_MAGIC 0x15013346
117 UFS_MAGIC 0x00011954
118 USBDEVICE_SUPER_MAGIC 0x9fa2
119 V9FS_MAGIC 0x01021997
120 VXFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0xa501fcf5
121 XENFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0xabba1974
122 XENIX_SUPER_MAGIC 0x012ff7b4
123 XFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0x58465342
124 _XIAFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0x012fd16d /* Linux 2.0 and earlier */
125 Most of these MAGIC constants are defined in
127 /usr/include/linux/magic.h, and some are hardcoded in kernel sources.
128 The f_flags field is a bit mask indicating mount options for the
130 filesystem. It contains zero or more of the following bits:
131 ST_MANDLOCK
133 Mandatory locking is permitted on the filesystem (see fcntl(2)).
134 ST_NOATIME
136 Do not update access times; see mount(2).
137 ST_NODEV
139 Disallow access to device special files on this filesystem.
140 ST_NODIRATIME
142 Do not update directory access times; see mount(2).
143 ST_NOEXEC
145 Execution of programs is disallowed on this filesystem.
146 ST_NOSUID
148 The set-user-ID and set-group-ID bits are ignored by exec(3) for
149 executable files on this filesystem
150 ST_RDONLY
152 This filesystem is mounted read-only.
153 ST_RELATIME
155 Update atime relative to mtime/ctime; see mount(2).
156 ST_SYNCHRONOUS
158 Writes are synched to the filesystem immediately (see the
159 description of O_SYNC in open(2)).
160 Nobody knows what f_fsid is supposed to contain (but see below).
162 Fields that are undefined for a particular filesystem are set to 0.
164 fstatfs() returns the same information about an open file referenced by
166 descriptor fd.
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169 On success, zero is returned. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is
170 set appropriately.
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173 EACCES (statfs()) Search permission is denied for a component of the
174 path prefix of path. (See also path_resolution(7).)
175 EBADF (fstatfs()) fd is not a valid open file descriptor.
177 EFAULT buf or path points to an invalid address.
179 EINTR The call was interrupted by a signal; see signal(7).
181 EIO An I/O error occurred while reading from the filesystem.
183 ELOOP (statfs()) Too many symbolic links were encountered in translat‐
185 ing path.
186 ENAMETOOLONG
188 (statfs()) path is too long.
189 ENOENT (statfs()) The file referred to by path does not exist.
191 ENOMEM Insufficient kernel memory was available.
193 ENOSYS The filesystem does not support this call.
195 ENOTDIR
197 (statfs()) A component of the path prefix of path is not a
198 directory.
199 EOVERFLOW
201 Some values were too large to be represented in the returned
202 struct.
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205 Linux-specific. The Linux statfs() was inspired by the 4.4BSD one (but
206 they do not use the same structure).
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209 The __fsword_t type used for various fields in the statfs structure
210 definition is a glibc internal type, not intended for public use. This
211 leaves the programmer in a bit of a conundrum when trying to copy or
212 compare these fields to local variables in a program. Using
213 unsigned int for such variables suffices on most systems.
214 The original Linux statfs() and fstatfs() system calls were not
216 designed with extremely large file sizes in mind. Subsequently, Linux
217 2.6 added new statfs64() and fstatfs64() system calls that employ a new
218 structure, statfs64. The new structure contains the same fields as the
219 original statfs structure, but the sizes of various fields are
220 increased, to accommodate large file sizes. The glibc statfs() and
221 fstatfs() wrapper functions transparently deal with the kernel differ‐
222 ences.
223 Some systems have only <sys/vfs.h>, other systems also have
225 <sys/statfs.h>, where the former includes the latter. So it seems
226 including the former is the best choice.
227 LSB has deprecated the library calls statfs() and fstatfs() and tells
229 us to use statvfs(2) and fstatvfs(2) instead.
230 The f_fsid field
232 Solaris, Irix and POSIX have a system call statvfs(2) that returns a
233 struct statvfs (defined in <sys/statvfs.h>) containing an unsigned long
234 f_fsid. Linux, SunOS, HP-UX, 4.4BSD have a system call statfs() that
235 returns a struct statfs (defined in <sys/vfs.h>) containing a fsid_t
236 f_fsid, where fsid_t is defined as struct { int val[2]; }. The same
237 holds for FreeBSD, except that it uses the include file <sys/mount.h>.
238 The general idea is that f_fsid contains some random stuff such that
240 the pair (f_fsid,ino) uniquely determines a file. Some operating sys‐
241 tems use (a variation on) the device number, or the device number com‐
242 bined with the filesystem type. Several operating systems restrict
243 giving out the f_fsid field to the superuser only (and zero it for
244 unprivileged users), because this field is used in the filehandle of
245 the filesystem when NFS-exported, and giving it out is a security con‐
246 cern.
247 Under some operating systems, the fsid can be used as the second argu‐
249 ment to the sysfs(2) system call.
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252 From Linux 2.6.38 up to and including Linux 3.1, fstatfs() failed with
253 the error ENOSYS for file descriptors created by pipe(2).
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256 stat(2), statvfs(3), path_resolution(7)
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