Disk space and batch

Hello,

I just modified the script for you to do what you asked. In the loop where we assign a value to NbKoFree with the SET command, don’t forget to add /a to indicate that it is a numeric value.

@echo off
rem content of the CHKDSK command put into Temp.txt
CHKDSK > C:\Temp.txt
rem retrieval of the line containing the number of free ko on the disk
FOR /F "delims=" %%a IN ('findstr "Ko" C:\Temp.txt') DO ECHO %%a > C:\Temp1.txt
rem retrieval of the available allocation number
FOR /F "tokens=1 delims= " %%i IN (C:\Temp1.txt) DO SET /a NbKoFree=%%i
Echo you have left: %nbKoFree% ko on the disk
rem test if the value of the variable is less than the defined value
IF %NbKoFree% LSS 37000000 ECHO Insufficient disk space >> D:\fichier.txt

No one can help me? (It's a bit of a wild upvote, but I really need help :S)

Hello there, there isn't a command that does this task automatically, but with some common sense you can manage it with the CHKDSK command. You’ll get a result like this:

C:>CHKDSK
The type of file system is NTFS.

Warning! The parameter F was not specified.
CHKDSK is running in read-only mode.

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
The file verification is complete.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
The index verification is complete.
CHKDSK is recovering lost files.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)..
The security descriptor verification is complete.
CHKDSK has found free space marked as allocated in the
master file table (MFT) bitmap.
Correcting errors in the volume map.
Windows has detected problems with the file system.
Run CHKDSK with the /F option to fix.

39013852 KB total disk space.
25569392 KB in 214858 files.
60520 KB in 6680 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
290016 KB used by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the page file.
13093924 KB available on the disk.

4096 bytes per allocation unit.
9753463 total allocation units on disk.
3273481 allocation units available on disk.

You just need to return the result with echo to a temporary text file, process it to extract only the line we’re interested in
so this line: "3273481 allocation units available on the disk"
Then you refine this line to retrieve only 3273481
to perform these treatments look at the FOR /F command ;)
And once you have retrieved this value you do a simple calculation
allocation units available on the disk X bytes per allocation unit
the result will be the remaining size of your hard drive in bytes.

There you go, it may sound complicated but I assure you it’s very simple, good luck.

Thank you for your response. I’ll see if I can manage to get by.

@echo off
rem contents of the CHKDSK command placed in Temp.txt
CHKDSK > C:\Temp.txt
rem retrieve the line containing the number of free kilobytes on the disk
FOR /F "delims=" %%a in ('findstr "Ko" C:\Temp.txt') DO ECHO %%a > C:\Temp1.txt
rem retrieve the number of available allocation
FOR /F "tokens=1 delims= " %%i in (C:\Temp1.txt) DO SET NbKoFree=%%i
Echo you have left: %nbKoFree% ko on the disk

Here is something like that, I tested it and it works, but while CHKDSK runs the command for about 5 good minutes you could think the app has crashed but no.

So it works well but it’s still quite long :(

Do not use CHKDSK at all, it’s dirty. Use the official method.

Hello,
If you could give it to us, I would be delighted; I don’t know it.

Hello,

Thank you Dionysoos. Apart from it taking a bit of time, it works.

I have another question.

I’d like that if %nbKoFree% is less than 37,000,000 Ko (for example) it writes "space disque insuffisant" in a txt file.

You must use the IF statement but the sign "<" does not work. Is there a way to do this?

IF %nbKoFree% <inférieur à> 37000000 ECHO Espace disque insuffisant >> D:\fichier.txt

It works on Windows XP Pro, but not on 2003 Server :/

It runs the CHKDSK command

It doesn’t create the Temp1.txt file
consequently, it doesn’t know where to look for the %NbKoFree% variable

I did a dumb copy/paste from XP Pro to 2003 Server, the architecture being exactly the same.

I don’t know, maybe a question of copyright in writing to check.