Free space in a CMD shell

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Is there a way to get the amount of free diskspace of a disk or a folder in a CMD without having to install some thirdparty applications   I have a CMD that copies a big file to a given directory and could of course use the errorlevel return from the copy command  but then I have to wait for the time it takes to copy the file  eg   to that then the disk is full and the copy operation fails    I would like to know before I start the copy if it is any idea at all  Tried the DU EXE utility from Sysinternals  but that show occupied space only

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A possible solution   dir find  bytes free    a more  advanced solution   for Windows Xp and beyond   wmic  node   COMPUTERNAME   LogicalDisk Where DriveType  3  Get DeviceID FreeSpace find  I  c     The Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line  WMIC  tool  Wmic exe  can gather vast amounts of information about about a Windows Server 2003 as well as Windows XP or Vista  The tool accesses the underlying hardware by using Windows Management Instrumentation  WMI   Not for Windows 2000     As noted by Alexander Stohr in the comments    WMIC can see policy based restrictions as well   even if  dir  will still do the job    dir  is locale dependent

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A possible solution   dir find  bytes free    a more  advanced solution   for Windows Xp and beyond   wmic  node   COMPUTERNAME   LogicalDisk Where DriveType  3  Get DeviceID FreeSpace find  I  c     The Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line  WMIC  tool  Wmic exe  can gather vast amounts of information about about a Windows Server 2003 as well as Windows XP or Vista  The tool accesses the underlying hardware by using Windows Management Instrumentation  WMI   Not for Windows 2000     As noted by Alexander Stohr in the comments    WMIC can see policy based restrictions as well   even if  dir  will still do the job    dir  is locale dependent

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df exe Shows all your disks   total  used and free capacity   You can alter the output by various command-line options  You can get it from http   www paulsadowski com WSH cmdprogs htm  http   unxutils sourceforge net  or somewhere else   It s a standard unix-util like du  df -h will show all your drive s used and available disk space  For example  M   gt df -h Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use  Mounted on C  cygwin bin   932G   78G  855G   9   usr bin C  cygwin lib   932G   78G  855G   9   usr lib C  cygwin       932G   78G  855G   9    C               932G   78G  855G   9   cygdrive c E               1 9T  1 3T  621G  67   cygdrive e F               1 9T  201G  1 7T  11   cygdrive f H               1 5T  524G  938G  36   cygdrive h M               1 5T  524G  938G  36   cygdrive m P                98G   67G   31G  69   cygdrive p R                98G   14G   84G  15   cygdrive r  Cygwin is available for free from  https   www cygwin com  It adds many powerful tools to the command prompt   To get just the available space on drive M  as mapped in windows to a shared drive   one could enter in  M   gt df -h   grep M    awk   print  4

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The following script will give you free bytes on the drive    setlocal enableextensions enabledelayedexpansion  echo off for  f  tokens 3    a in   dir c     do       set bytesfree   a   set bytesfree  bytesfree     echo  bytesfree  endlocal  amp  amp  set bytesfree  bytesfree    Note that this depends on the output of your dir command  which needs the last line containing the free space of the format 24 Dir s  34 071 691 264 bytes free  Specifically    it must be the last line  or you can modify the for loop to detect the line explicitly rather than relying on setting bytesfree for every line   the free space must be the third  word   or you can change the tokens  bit to get a different word   thousands separators are the   character  or you can change the substitution from comma to something else     It doesn t pollute your environment namespace  setting only the bytesfree variable on exit  If your dir output is different  eg  different locale or language settings   you will need to adjust the script

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The following script will give you free bytes on the drive    setlocal enableextensions enabledelayedexpansion  echo off for  f  tokens 3    a in   dir c     do       set bytesfree   a   set bytesfree  bytesfree     echo  bytesfree  endlocal  amp  amp  set bytesfree  bytesfree    Note that this depends on the output of your dir command  which needs the last line containing the free space of the format 24 Dir s  34 071 691 264 bytes free  Specifically    it must be the last line  or you can modify the for loop to detect the line explicitly rather than relying on setting bytesfree for every line   the free space must be the third  word   or you can change the tokens  bit to get a different word   thousands separators are the   character  or you can change the substitution from comma to something else     It doesn t pollute your environment namespace  setting only the bytesfree variable on exit  If your dir output is different  eg  different locale or language settings   you will need to adjust the script

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Is cscript a 3rd party app  I suggest trying Microsoft Scripting  where you can use a programming language  JScript  VBS  to check on things like List Available Disk Space   The scripting infrastructure is present on all current Windows versions  including 2008

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You can avoid the commas by using  -C on the DIR command   FOR  F  usebackq tokens 3    s IN   DIR C    -C  -O  W   DO       SET FREE SPACE   s   ECHO FREE SPACE is  FREE SPACE    If you want to compare the available space to the space needed  you could do something like the following  I specified the number with thousands separator  then removed them  It is difficult to grasp the number without commas  The SET  A is nice  but it stops working with large numbers   SET EXITCODE 0 SET NEEDED 100 000 000 SET NEEDED  NEEDED      IF  FREE SPACE  LSS  NEEDED        ECHO Not enough      SET EXITCODE 1   EXIT  B  EXITCODE

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If you run  dir c     the last line will give you the free disk space   Edit  Better solution   fsutil volume diskfree c

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A possible solution   dir find  bytes free    a more  advanced solution   for Windows Xp and beyond   wmic  node   COMPUTERNAME   LogicalDisk Where DriveType  3  Get DeviceID FreeSpace find  I  c     The Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line  WMIC  tool  Wmic exe  can gather vast amounts of information about about a Windows Server 2003 as well as Windows XP or Vista  The tool accesses the underlying hardware by using Windows Management Instrumentation  WMI   Not for Windows 2000     As noted by Alexander Stohr in the comments    WMIC can see policy based restrictions as well   even if  dir  will still do the job    dir  is locale dependent

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df exe Shows all your disks   total  used and free capacity   You can alter the output by various command-line options  You can get it from http   www paulsadowski com WSH cmdprogs htm  http   unxutils sourceforge net  or somewhere else   It s a standard unix-util like du  df -h will show all your drive s used and available disk space  For example  M   gt df -h Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use  Mounted on C  cygwin bin   932G   78G  855G   9   usr bin C  cygwin lib   932G   78G  855G   9   usr lib C  cygwin       932G   78G  855G   9    C               932G   78G  855G   9   cygdrive c E               1 9T  1 3T  621G  67   cygdrive e F               1 9T  201G  1 7T  11   cygdrive f H               1 5T  524G  938G  36   cygdrive h M               1 5T  524G  938G  36   cygdrive m P                98G   67G   31G  69   cygdrive p R                98G   14G   84G  15   cygdrive r  Cygwin is available for free from  https   www cygwin com  It adds many powerful tools to the command prompt   To get just the available space on drive M  as mapped in windows to a shared drive   one could enter in  M   gt df -h   grep M    awk   print  4

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I make a variation to generate this out from script   volume C  - 49 GB total space   29512314880 byte s  free  I use diskpart to get this information    echo off setlocal enableextensions enabledelayedexpansion set chkfile drivechk tmp if   1        goto  usage set drive  1 set drive  drive     set drive  drive     dir  drive   gt nul 2 gt  chkfile  for     in   chkfile   do     set chksize    z    if  chksize  neq 0     more  chkfile    del  chkfile    goto  eof   del  chkfile  echo list volume   diskpart   find  I    drive     gt  chkfile  for  f  tokens 6    a in   type  chkfile     do       set dsksz   a   for  f  tokens 7    a in   type  chkfile     do       set dskunit   a   del  chkfile  for  f  tokens 3    a in   dir  drive      do     set bytesfree   a   set bytesfree  bytesfree     echo volume  drive   -  dsksz   dskunit  total space    bytesfree  byte s  free endlocal  goto  eof  usage   echo    echo   usage  freedisk   lt driveletter  gt   eg   freedisk c

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Using this command you can find all partitions  size  amp  free space  wmic logicaldisk get size  freespace  caption

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Using this command you can find all partitions  size  amp  free space  wmic logicaldisk get size  freespace  caption

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Using paxdiablo excellent solution I wrote a little bit more sophisticated batch script  which uses drive letter as the incoming argument and checks if drive exists on a tricky  but not beauty  way   echo off setlocal enableextensions enabledelayedexpansion set chkfile drivechk tmp if  quot  1 quot      quot  quot  goto  usage set drive  1 set drive  drive     set drive  drive     dir  drive   gt nul 2 gt  chkfile  for     in   chkfile   do     set chksize    z    if  chksize  neq 0     more  chkfile    del  chkfile    goto  eof   del  chkfile  for  f  quot tokens 3 quot    a in   dir  drive      do     set bytesfree   a   set bytesfree  bytesfree     echo  bytesfree  byte s  free on volume  drive   endlocal  goto  eof  usage   echo    echo   usage  freedisk   lt driveletter  gt   eg   freedisk c   note1  you may type simple letter  eg  x  or may use x  or x   format as drive letter in the argument note2  script will display stderr from  chkfile  only if the size bigger than 0 note3  I saved this script as freedisk cmd  see usage

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Using paxdiablo excellent solution I wrote a little bit more sophisticated batch script  which uses drive letter as the incoming argument and checks if drive exists on a tricky  but not beauty  way   echo off setlocal enableextensions enabledelayedexpansion set chkfile drivechk tmp if  quot  1 quot      quot  quot  goto  usage set drive  1 set drive  drive     set drive  drive     dir  drive   gt nul 2 gt  chkfile  for     in   chkfile   do     set chksize    z    if  chksize  neq 0     more  chkfile    del  chkfile    goto  eof   del  chkfile  for  f  quot tokens 3 quot    a in   dir  drive      do     set bytesfree   a   set bytesfree  bytesfree     echo  bytesfree  byte s  free on volume  drive   endlocal  goto  eof  usage   echo    echo   usage  freedisk   lt driveletter  gt   eg   freedisk c   note1  you may type simple letter  eg  x  or may use x  or x   format as drive letter in the argument note2  script will display stderr from  chkfile  only if the size bigger than 0 note3  I saved this script as freedisk cmd  see usage

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df exe Shows all your disks   total  used and free capacity   You can alter the output by various command-line options  You can get it from http   www paulsadowski com WSH cmdprogs htm  http   unxutils sourceforge net  or somewhere else   It s a standard unix-util like du  df -h will show all your drive s used and available disk space  For example  M   gt df -h Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use  Mounted on C  cygwin bin   932G   78G  855G   9   usr bin C  cygwin lib   932G   78G  855G   9   usr lib C  cygwin       932G   78G  855G   9    C               932G   78G  855G   9   cygdrive c E               1 9T  1 3T  621G  67   cygdrive e F               1 9T  201G  1 7T  11   cygdrive f H               1 5T  524G  938G  36   cygdrive h M               1 5T  524G  938G  36   cygdrive m P                98G   67G   31G  69   cygdrive p R                98G   14G   84G  15   cygdrive r  Cygwin is available for free from  https   www cygwin com  It adds many powerful tools to the command prompt   To get just the available space on drive M  as mapped in windows to a shared drive   one could enter in  M   gt df -h   grep M    awk   print  4

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You can avoid the commas by using  -C on the DIR command   FOR  F  usebackq tokens 3    s IN   DIR C    -C  -O  W   DO       SET FREE SPACE   s   ECHO FREE SPACE is  FREE SPACE    If you want to compare the available space to the space needed  you could do something like the following  I specified the number with thousands separator  then removed them  It is difficult to grasp the number without commas  The SET  A is nice  but it stops working with large numbers   SET EXITCODE 0 SET NEEDED 100 000 000 SET NEEDED  NEEDED      IF  FREE SPACE  LSS  NEEDED        ECHO Not enough      SET EXITCODE 1   EXIT  B  EXITCODE

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If you run  dir c     the last line will give you the free disk space   Edit  Better solution   fsutil volume diskfree c

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A possible solution   dir find  bytes free    a more  advanced solution   for Windows Xp and beyond   wmic  node   COMPUTERNAME   LogicalDisk Where DriveType  3  Get DeviceID FreeSpace find  I  c     The Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line  WMIC  tool  Wmic exe  can gather vast amounts of information about about a Windows Server 2003 as well as Windows XP or Vista  The tool accesses the underlying hardware by using Windows Management Instrumentation  WMI   Not for Windows 2000     As noted by Alexander Stohr in the comments    WMIC can see policy based restrictions as well   even if  dir  will still do the job    dir  is locale dependent

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df exe Shows all your disks   total  used and free capacity   You can alter the output by various command-line options  You can get it from http   www paulsadowski com WSH cmdprogs htm  http   unxutils sourceforge net  or somewhere else   It s a standard unix-util like du  df -h will show all your drive s used and available disk space  For example  M   gt df -h Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use  Mounted on C  cygwin bin   932G   78G  855G   9   usr bin C  cygwin lib   932G   78G  855G   9   usr lib C  cygwin       932G   78G  855G   9    C               932G   78G  855G   9   cygdrive c E               1 9T  1 3T  621G  67   cygdrive e F               1 9T  201G  1 7T  11   cygdrive f H               1 5T  524G  938G  36   cygdrive h M               1 5T  524G  938G  36   cygdrive m P                98G   67G   31G  69   cygdrive p R                98G   14G   84G  15   cygdrive r  Cygwin is available for free from  https   www cygwin com  It adds many powerful tools to the command prompt   To get just the available space on drive M  as mapped in windows to a shared drive   one could enter in  M   gt df -h   grep M    awk   print  4

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If you run  dir c     the last line will give you the free disk space   Edit  Better solution   fsutil volume diskfree c

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Is cscript a 3rd party app  I suggest trying Microsoft Scripting  where you can use a programming language  JScript  VBS  to check on things like List Available Disk Space   The scripting infrastructure is present on all current Windows versions  including 2008

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Is cscript a 3rd party app  I suggest trying Microsoft Scripting  where you can use a programming language  JScript  VBS  to check on things like List Available Disk Space   The scripting infrastructure is present on all current Windows versions  including 2008

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I make a variation to generate this out from script   volume C  - 49 GB total space   29512314880 byte s  free  I use diskpart to get this information    echo off setlocal enableextensions enabledelayedexpansion set chkfile drivechk tmp if   1        goto  usage set drive  1 set drive  drive     set drive  drive     dir  drive   gt nul 2 gt  chkfile  for     in   chkfile   do     set chksize    z    if  chksize  neq 0     more  chkfile    del  chkfile    goto  eof   del  chkfile  echo list volume   diskpart   find  I    drive     gt  chkfile  for  f  tokens 6    a in   type  chkfile     do       set dsksz   a   for  f  tokens 7    a in   type  chkfile     do       set dskunit   a   del  chkfile  for  f  tokens 3    a in   dir  drive      do     set bytesfree   a   set bytesfree  bytesfree     echo volume  drive   -  dsksz   dskunit  total space    bytesfree  byte s  free endlocal  goto  eof  usage   echo    echo   usage  freedisk   lt driveletter  gt   eg   freedisk c

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Is cscript a 3rd party app  I suggest trying Microsoft Scripting  where you can use a programming language  JScript  VBS  to check on things like List Available Disk Space   The scripting infrastructure is present on all current Windows versions  including 2008

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If you run  dir c     the last line will give you the free disk space   Edit  Better solution   fsutil volume diskfree c

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