From 6c9f7092905647cc60ba2e439e8cad4542699dc3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: shortcutme <tamas@zeronet.io>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 12:55:03 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix linux utf8 path free space query

---
 src/util/helper.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/util/helper.py b/src/util/helper.py
index 6b2a90f0..597a8d75 100644
--- a/src/util/helper.py
+++ b/src/util/helper.py
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ def openLocked(path, mode="w"):
 def getFreeSpace():
     free_space = -1
     if "statvfs" in dir(os):  # Unix
-        statvfs = os.statvfs(config.data_dir)
+        statvfs = os.statvfs(config.data_dir.encode("utf8"))
         free_space = statvfs.f_frsize * statvfs.f_bavail
     else:  # Windows
         try: