diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index d689e82d..ec9af62c 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -592,6 +592,7 @@ Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@web.de>
 
 Thomas Koch <tom@harhar.net>
  for his support in keeping the Premiere World channels up to date in 'channels.conf'
+ for implementing the SVDRP command STAT
 
 Stefan Hußfeldt <vdr@marvin.on-luebeck.de>
  for his help in keeping 'channels.conf.cable' up to date
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index e07d5a08..f7a38b73 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -2081,3 +2081,5 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   is started through a user defined key macro (thanks to Andreas Mair for reporting
   this one).
 - Reduced the time to wait for EPG data when starting a recording to 3 seconds.
+- The new SVDRP command STAT can be used to request information about the disk
+  usage (thanks to Thomas Koch).
diff --git a/svdrp.c b/svdrp.c
index 102abe0d..6dafddd1 100644
--- a/svdrp.c
+++ b/svdrp.c
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
  * and interact with the Video Disk Recorder - or write a full featured
  * graphical interface that sits on top of an SVDRP connection.
  *
- * $Id: svdrp.c 1.50 2002/12/22 14:04:08 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: svdrp.c 1.51 2003/04/27 14:21:07 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "svdrp.h"
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 #include "remote.h"
 #include "timers.h"
 #include "tools.h"
+#include "videodir.h"
 
 // --- cSocket ---------------------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -250,6 +251,8 @@ const char *HelpPages[] = {
   "    format defined in vdr(5) for the 'epg.data' file.  A '.' on a line\n"
   "    by itself terminates the input and starts processing of the data (all\n"
   "    entered data is buffered until the terminating '.' is seen).",
+  "STAT disk\n"
+  "    Return information about disk usage (total, free, percent).",
   "UPDT <settings>\n"
   "    Updates a timer. Settings must be in the same format as returned\n"
   "    by the LSTT command. If a timer with the same channel, day, start\n"
@@ -929,6 +932,22 @@ void cSVDRP::CmdPUTE(const char *Option)
      DELETENULL(PUTEhandler);
 }
 
+void cSVDRP::CmdSTAT(const char *Option)
+{
+  if (*Option) {
+     if (strcasecmp(Option, "DISK") == 0) {
+        int FreeMB;
+        int Percent = VideoDiskSpace(&FreeMB);
+        int Total = (FreeMB / (100 - Percent)) * 100;
+        Reply(250, "%dMB %dMB %d%%", Total, FreeMB, Percent);
+        }
+     else
+        Reply(501, "Invalid Option \"%s\"", Option);
+     }
+  else
+     Reply(501, "No option given");
+}
+
 void cSVDRP::CmdUPDT(const char *Option)
 {
   if (*Option) {
@@ -1021,6 +1040,7 @@ void cSVDRP::Execute(char *Cmd)
   else if (CMD("NEWT"))  CmdNEWT(s);
   else if (CMD("NEXT"))  CmdNEXT(s);
   else if (CMD("PUTE"))  CmdPUTE(s);
+  else if (CMD("STAT"))  CmdSTAT(s);
   else if (CMD("UPDT"))  CmdUPDT(s);
   else if (CMD("VOLU"))  CmdVOLU(s);
   else if (CMD("QUIT"))  Close();
diff --git a/svdrp.h b/svdrp.h
index 1052d633..67918ed5 100644
--- a/svdrp.h
+++ b/svdrp.h
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: svdrp.h 1.18 2002/11/30 14:36:04 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: svdrp.h 1.19 2003/04/27 14:09:59 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #ifndef __SVDRP_H
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ private:
   void CmdNEWT(const char *Option);
   void CmdNEXT(const char *Option);
   void CmdPUTE(const char *Option);
+  void CmdSTAT(const char *Option);
   void CmdUPDT(const char *Option);
   void CmdVOLU(const char *Option);
   void Execute(char *Cmd);