Non-blocking way to get mounted filesystem info (size/free space) for NTFS...

vegan_vicky

I am experiencing some trouble with an external HDD. I'm afraid it is starting to getting corrupted or damaged. In an application I am using statfs to retrieve information of that external HDD: const char *mountPoint = "/media/hdd"; struct statfs s; statfs(mountPoint, &s); However, from time to time, I have noticed in the application logs that the complete Linux system is blocked (in fact, due to not registering some events at the correct...

Originally asked by aloplop85 on Stack Exchange (unix) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Write your logic to extract the device parameters and assign it to a thread/process. Monitor the worker thread/process from the parent process and kill it after a suitable timeout if it is hung.

Full answer by soumen: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/216388 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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