Method

GioFilequery_filesystem_info

Declaration 

GFileInfo*
g_file_query_filesystem_info (
  GFile* file,
  const char* attributes,
  GCancellable* cancellable,
  GError** error
)

Description

Similar to g_file_query_info(), but obtains information about the filesystem the file is on, rather than the file itself. For instance the amount of space available and the type of the filesystem.

The attributes value is a string that specifies the attributes that should be gathered. It is not an error if it’s not possible to read a particular requested attribute from a file - it just won’t be set. attributes should be a comma-separated list of attributes or attribute wildcards. The wildcard “” means all attributes, and a wildcard like “filesystem::” means all attributes in the filesystem namespace. The standard namespace for filesystem attributes is “filesystem”. Common attributes of interest are G_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_FILESYSTEM_SIZE (the total size of the filesystem in bytes), G_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_FILESYSTEM_FREE (number of bytes available), and G_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_FILESYSTEM_TYPE (type of the filesystem).

If cancellable is not NULL, then the operation can be cancelled by triggering the cancellable object from another thread. If the operation was cancelled, the error G_IO_ERROR_CANCELLED will be returned.

If the file does not exist, the G_IO_ERROR_NOT_FOUND error will be returned. Other errors are possible too, and depend on what kind of filesystem the file is on.

Parameters

attributes

Type: const char*

An attribute query string.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.
cancellable

Type: GCancellable

Optional GCancellable object, NULL to ignore.

The argument can be NULL.
The data is owned by the caller of the function.
error

Type: GError **

The return location for a recoverable error.

The argument can be NULL.
If the return location is not NULL, then you must initialize it to a NULL GError*.
The argument will left initialized to NULL by the method if there are no errors.
In case of error, the argument will be set to a newly allocated GError; the caller will take ownership of the data, and be responsible for freeing it.

Return value

Type: GFileInfo

A GFileInfo or NULL if there was an error. Free the returned object with g_object_unref().

The caller of the method takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.