How to calculate free space on a USB stick using f_getfree

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September 11, 2019
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Hello, I found this handy site with example code on getting free space on a USB connected to my STM32F7. The example code says "assuming 512 bytes/sector"... but I can't get the math to work out. How do I tell how many bytes per sector is on my USB drive, and will this be the same for all USB drives? OR is there another query I need to do on the card to figure out this bytes/sector parameter? Thanks!

Oops, here's the handy site. Got me *almost* all the way there.

http://elm-chan.org/fsw/ff/doc/getfree.html

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dbgarasiya

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Hi

using this function, you will get number of free clusters

FRESULT f_getfree (

const TCHAR* path, /* Path name of the logical drive number */

DWORD* nclst, /* Pointer to a variable to return number of free clusters */

FATFS** fatfs /* Pointer to return pointer to corresponding file system object */

)

and evry cluster size is fixed

so based on that you wil get available size of usb stick

Best of luck

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