FileT.measureDiskUsage

Recursively measures the disk usage of file.

This is essentially an analog of the 'du' command, but it also reports the number of directories and non-directory files encountered (including things like symbolic links).

By default, errors are only reported against the toplevel file itself. Errors found while recursing are silently ignored, unless G_FILE_MEASURE_REPORT_ANY_ERROR is given in flags.

The returned size, disk_usage, is in bytes and should be formatted with g_format_size() in order to get something reasonable for showing in a user interface.

progress_callback and progress_data can be given to request periodic progress updates while scanning. See the documentation for GFileMeasureProgressCallback for information about when and how the callback will be invoked.

template FileT(TStruct)
bool
measureDiskUsage

Parameters

flags GFileMeasureFlags
cancellable Cancellable
progressCallback GFileMeasureProgressCallback
progressData void*

user_data for progress_callback

diskUsage ulong

the number of bytes of disk space used

numDirs ulong

the number of directories encountered

numFiles ulong

the number of non-directories encountered

Return Value

Type: bool

TRUE if successful, with the out parameters set. FALSE otherwise, with error set.

Throws

GException on failure.

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Since

2.38