querying free space on a dvd-rw disk

[Jerry Feldman]

On 01/21/2011 02:34 PM, Stephen Adler wrote:
> Hi Blu'ers...
>
> I'm writing some scripts to do backups of data for my job. Does anyone =

> know how to query a DVD-RW disk to find out how much free space is on=20
> it? I guess one could mount it, get the used space and subtract that=20
> from the official 4.7Gigs of DVD capacity, but it would be nice to be=20
> able to do some kind of direct query.
I would think that the df command should work. It will give you used and
available.

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