diff --git a/headers/posix/sys/statvfs.h b/headers/posix/sys/statvfs.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..542add1bdd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/headers/posix/sys/statvfs.h
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2005, Haiku, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
+ * Distributed under the terms of the MIT License.
+ */
+#ifndef _STAT_VFS_H_
+#define _STAT_VFS_H_
+
+
+#include <sys/types.h>
+
+
+struct statvfs {
+	unsigned long	f_bsize;	/* block size */
+	unsigned long	f_frsize;	/* fundamental block size */
+	fsblkcnt_t		f_blocks;	/* number of blocks on file system in units of f_frsize */
+	fsblkcnt_t		f_bfree;	/* number of free blocks */
+	fsblkcnt_t		f_bavail;	/* number of free blocks available to processes */
+	fsfilcnt_t		f_files;	/* number of file serial numbers */
+	fsfilcnt_t		f_ffree;	/* number of free file serial numbers */
+	fsfilcnt_t		f_favail;	/* number of file serial numbers available to processes */
+	unsigned long	f_fsid;		/* file system ID */
+	unsigned long	f_flag;		/* see below */
+	unsigned long	f_namemax;	/* maximum file name length */
+};
+
+#define ST_RDONLY	1
+#define ST_NOSUID	2
+
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C" {
+#endif
+
+int statvfs(const char *path, struct statvfs *statvfs);
+int fstatvfs(int fd, struct statvfs *statvfs);
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+}
+#endif
+
+#endif /* _STAT_VFS_H_ */
diff --git a/src/system/libroot/posix/sys/Jamfile b/src/system/libroot/posix/sys/Jamfile
index 71d5e19930..cf7bb055de 100644
--- a/src/system/libroot/posix/sys/Jamfile
+++ b/src/system/libroot/posix/sys/Jamfile
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ KernelMergeObject posix_sys.o :
 	rlimit.c
  	select.c
 	stat.c
+	statvfs.c
  	sysctl.c
  	times.c
  	uio.c
diff --git a/src/system/libroot/posix/sys/statvfs.c b/src/system/libroot/posix/sys/statvfs.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..695363fe3b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/system/libroot/posix/sys/statvfs.c
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2005, Axel Dörfler, axeld@pinc-software.de. All rights reserved.
+ * Distributed under the terms of the MIT License.
+ */
+
+
+#include <sys/statvfs.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
+
+#include <fs_info.h>
+
+
+static int
+fill_statvfs(dev_t device, struct statvfs *statvfs)
+{
+	fs_info info;
+	if (fs_stat_dev(device, &info) < 0)
+		return -1;
+
+	statvfs->f_frsize = statvfs->f_bsize = info.block_size;
+	statvfs->f_blocks = info.total_blocks;
+	statvfs->f_bavail = statvfs->f_bfree = info.free_blocks;
+	statvfs->f_files = info.total_nodes;
+	statvfs->f_favail = statvfs->f_ffree = info.free_nodes;
+	statvfs->f_fsid = device;
+	statvfs->f_flag = info.flags & B_FS_IS_READONLY ? ST_RDONLY : 0;
+	statvfs->f_namemax = B_FILE_NAME_LENGTH;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+
+//	#pragma mark -
+
+
+int
+statvfs(const char *path, struct statvfs *statvfs)
+{
+	dev_t device = dev_for_path(path);
+	if (device < 0)
+		return -1;
+
+	return fill_statvfs(device, statvfs);
+}
+
+
+int
+fstatvfs(int fd, struct statvfs *statvfs)
+{
+	struct stat stat;
+	if (fstat(fd, &stat) < 0)
+		return -1;
+
+	return fill_statvfs(stat.st_dev, statvfs);
+}
+