Re: [PATCH 03/13] Add method to get size of existing filesystems.

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On Sunday, March 15 2009, David Lehman said:
> > >
> > > Why not just do a temporary mount somewhere (if not already mounted) and
> > > run statfs on it?  Wouldn't that be simpler?</hand_wave>
> > 
> > It would be.  Attached is a new patch.  I didn't know we could call 
> > statvfs() from Python (nor did I ever bother to look, but whatever).
> 
> Much nicer.

Mounting can entail side effects, though, such as journal recovery and
has also in some cases ended up with filesystems having new,
incompatible features enabled.  While I guess it's possible that running
dumpe2fs, etc on a filesystem could do similar things, it just feels a
lot less likely.

Jeremy

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