read filesystem quota

[LonelyPixel]

has anyone an idea how to read the current user's filesystem quota from a php script?

i thought of something like
- determine filesystem, a given absolute path is on
- call quota and rely on its constant output layout...

determination of the filesystem could be done with the mount point column from the quota command... but that's all a bit too tricky, i think.

is there a more 'stable' solution for this? i'd just like to get the number of free/total/used bytes of the current user (php is running under this uid).

thanks in advance 🙂

[ftrudeau]

may I suggest you use the 'df -k' shell command, then crunch the output of this command into a more user-friendly format, then output it the way you like it to be outputed.

[LonelyPixel]

Originally posted by ftrudeau
...the 'df -k' shell command...

that's the same approach as doing a quota, but only that it won't respect any user quota 🙁 as it seems to me, df always shows the totally available disk space, size etc. but not only for the current user.

[ftrudeau]

Untrue, since you can, with PHP's ENV var, get the docroot/homedir of the use running the script, or with posix_getpwname or posix_getpwuid, for that matter. Then, just run df -k $path. That is one way to do it that I would use.

[LonelyPixel]

hmm, ok, i think it's best to write me a little C program myself. shouldn't be too hard to find and read the 'quota' source code.