diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index b5a32bd072340..c58c7a74bf11e 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2679,6 +2679,17 @@ dependencies = [
  "winapi",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "fs4"
+version = "0.6.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "8ea55201cc351fdb478217c0fb641b59813da9b4efe4c414a9d8f989a657d149"
+dependencies = [
+ "libc",
+ "rustix 0.35.13",
+ "winapi",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "fs_extra"
 version = "1.2.0"
@@ -9297,9 +9308,9 @@ name = "sc-storage-monitor"
 version = "0.1.0"
 dependencies = [
  "clap 4.0.32",
+ "fs4",
  "futures",
  "log",
- "nix 0.26.1",
  "sc-client-db",
  "sc-utils",
  "sp-core",
diff --git a/client/storage-monitor/Cargo.toml b/client/storage-monitor/Cargo.toml
index 2ba24f9e2e718..52f34a2967654 100644
--- a/client/storage-monitor/Cargo.toml
+++ b/client/storage-monitor/Cargo.toml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ homepage = "https://substrate.io"
 clap = { version = "4.0.9", features = ["derive", "string"] }
 futures = "0.3.21"
 log = "0.4.17"
-nix = { version = "0.26.1", features = ["fs"] }
+fs4 = "0.6.3"
 sc-client-db = { version = "0.10.0-dev", default-features = false, path = "../db" }
 sc-utils = { version = "4.0.0-dev", path = "../utils" }
 sp-core = { version = "7.0.0", path = "../../primitives/core" }
diff --git a/client/storage-monitor/src/lib.rs b/client/storage-monitor/src/lib.rs
index 162fcfe34a52b..3b1772ed98704 100644
--- a/client/storage-monitor/src/lib.rs
+++ b/client/storage-monitor/src/lib.rs
@@ -17,10 +17,11 @@
 // along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
 use clap::Args;
-use nix::{errno::Errno, sys::statvfs::statvfs};
+use fs4::statvfs;
 use sc_client_db::DatabaseSource;
 use sp_core::traits::SpawnEssentialNamed;
 use std::{
+	io,
 	path::{Path, PathBuf},
 	time::Duration,
 };
@@ -31,7 +32,7 @@ const LOG_TARGET: &str = "storage-monitor";
 #[derive(Debug, thiserror::Error)]
 pub enum Error {
 	#[error("IO Error")]
-	IOError(#[from] Errno),
+	IOError(#[from] io::Error),
 	#[error("Out of storage space: available {0}MB, required {1}MB")]
 	StorageOutOfSpace(u64, u64),
 }
@@ -117,12 +118,8 @@ impl StorageMonitorService {
 
 	/// Returns free space in MB, or error if statvfs failed.
 	fn free_space(path: &Path) -> Result<u64, Error> {
-		statvfs(path)
-			.map(|stats| {
-				u64::from(stats.blocks_available()).saturating_mul(u64::from(stats.block_size())) /
-					1_000_000
-			})
-			.map_err(Error::from)
+		let amount = statvfs(path)?;
+		Ok(amount.available_space() / (1024 * 1024))
 	}
 
 	/// Checks if the amount of free space for given `path` is above given `threshold`.