METHOD FOR RETRIEVING FREE HARD DISK SPACE!

Hi!
I would like to know if there is any (standard or not) CLASS with methods for retrieving the amount of free hard disk space. I would appreciate if you could help! Thanks a lot!
Best regards,
Pedro Le�o

for which os?
because java must run on all operating systems no method is implemented (as far as i know). so you must call a system-program (or script) to do the work.

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