The getFreeSpaceKb(String path) method in the FileSystemUtils class can help you to calculate the free space of a drive or volume in kilo bytes.

Beside using commons-io solution, you can use the File.getFreeSpace() method call provided in the Java 1.6 API. You can find an example of it in the following link: How do I get total space and free space of my disk?.

package org.kodejava.example.commons.io;

import org.apache.commons.io.FileSystemUtils;
import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;

import java.io.IOException;

public class DiskFreeSpace {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            String path = "/Users/wayan";
            long freeSpaceKB = FileSystemUtils.freeSpaceKb(path);
            long freeSpaceMB = freeSpaceKB / FileUtils.ONE_KB;
            long freeSpaceGB = freeSpaceKB / FileUtils.ONE_MB;

            System.out.println("Size of " + path + " = " + freeSpaceKB + " KB");
            System.out.println("Size of " + path + " = " + freeSpaceMB + " MB");
            System.out.println("Size of " + path + " = " + freeSpaceGB + " GB");
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

An example result of the code above is:

Size of /Users/wayan = 70583428 KB
Size of /Users/wayan = 68929 MB
Size of /Users/wayan = 67 GB

Maven Dependencies

<!-- http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/commons-io/commons-io/2.6/commons-io-2.6.jar -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
    <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
    <version>2.6</version>
</dependency>

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