use Win32::API; sub make_large_int { my ($lo, $hi) = @_; return $hi * (1 + 0xffffffff) + $lo; } # Return a two-element list: (size, free) in bytes. sub win_get_disk_free { my $dir = shift; # $dir is a directory on the disk of interest $dir =~ tr{/}{\\}; my $GetDiskFreeSpaceEx = Win32::API->new( 'kernel32.dll', 'GetDiskFreeSpaceEx', ['P','P','P','P'], 'I') or die; my $lpFreeBytesAvailable = pack('L2', 0, 0); my $lpTotalNumberOfBytes = pack('L2', 0, 0); my $lpTotalNumberOfFreeBytes = pack('L2', 0, 0); $GetDiskFreeSpaceEx->Call($dir, $lpFreeBytesAvailable, $lpTotalNumberOfBytes, $lpTotalNumberOfFreeBytes) or die "GetDiskFreeSpaceEx failed ($^E)\n"; return ( make_large_int(unpack('L2', $lpTotalNumberOfBytes)), make_large_int(unpack('L2', $lpTotalNumberOfFreeBytes)) ); } my ($size, $free) = win_get_disk_free('C:/'); printf "disk size = %d MB\n", $size/(1024*1024); printf "disk free = %d MB\n", $free/(1024*1024);