drivespacefree / drivespacetotal discrepancy

[robmason]

The following script yields some wide discrepancy than what the OS is reporting:

$free = driveSpaceFree("C:")

$total= driveSpaceTotal("C:")

msgbox(4096,@COMPUTERNAME,"total=" & $total & " free=" & $free)

See the attachement for output and what properties of my C: drive looks like. I'm wondering why the vast discrepancy? I understand that they come across in MB, but the total is way off.

This is running on Windows XP SP2 (32b)

Thanks

Rob

[DarkMatter]

Doing this:

$free = driveSpaceFree("C:") / 1024
$total= driveSpaceTotal("C:") / 1024
msgbox(4096,@COMPUTERNAME,"total=" & $total & " free=" & $free)

I didn't have a huge discrepancy. Just a few decimal points and thats due to the dropping the last few decimal places.

DriveSpaceFree and DriveSpaceTotal returns in Megabytes if you just devide that by 1024 that will give you how many gigs are free.

Edited March 24, 2008 by MattWise

[weaponx]

Usually there are going to be differences because the page file and temp folder change size dynamically.

I get discrepencies if I check the drive properties and run my script a few seconds later. If I launch my script and hit the properties very quickly the numbers match just fine.

[robmason]

Excellent guys - that makes sense now.

Thanks

Rob