Drive Space Pop-up

[markstangroom]

i've seen a Windows XP setup where when a user logs in a pop-up appears with a pie-chart of their drive space.

I've set my users disk quotas and would like to use somthing similar so they know when they are reaching their limit. But i can't find this, or any other, program anywhere.

Please can anyone help?

Thanks

Mark

 

[timw]

Ermm, am I missing something or is this a Microsoft Windows question? This is a Java forum. I apologise if I'm wrong, but you don't mention 'Java' anywhere in your question so who's to know?

Tim

 

[Diancecht]

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[markstangroom]

yes it is a java question which is why i put it in the java forum.

i am trying to write a small java program, maybe a small IE window, which i can set to run when a user logs in which pops up and tells them how much space they have left on the drive.

i've been playing around with

Runtime.getRuntime().exec("/bin/df -h");
but can't get it to work.

 

[sedj]

Hang on - which OS is it ? You say Win XP earlier, but now you seem to be running a linux command ?

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[Diancecht]

Ok. Some points.

I cannot find any reason to use Java for a clearly native application.

I will suppose you're using some kind of *Nix (I don't know about any df command in windows).

So your code sholub be something similar to

Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("df");
p.waitFor();
p.getInputStream().read();

Anyway, posting your error message would be helpful.

Cheers,

Dian