diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index df6843364331a..91ae9ab422c3e 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2557,6 +2557,17 @@ 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 = "1.3.0"
@@ -3282,6 +3293,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "webrtc-util",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "io-lifetimes"
+version = "0.7.5"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "59ce5ef949d49ee85593fc4d3f3f95ad61657076395cbbce23e2121fc5542074"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "io-lifetimes"
 version = "1.0.5"
@@ -3323,8 +3340,8 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "22e18b0a45d56fe973d6db23972bf5bc46f988a4a2385deac9cc29572f09daef"
 dependencies = [
  "hermit-abi 0.3.0",
- "io-lifetimes",
- "rustix",
+ "io-lifetimes 1.0.5",
+ "rustix 0.36.8",
  "windows-sys 0.45.0",
 ]
 
@@ -4222,6 +4239,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "nalgebra",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "linux-raw-sys"
+version = "0.0.46"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "d4d2456c373231a208ad294c33dc5bff30051eafd954cd4caae83a712b12854d"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "linux-raw-sys"
 version = "0.1.4"
@@ -4372,7 +4395,7 @@ version = "0.6.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "b20a59d985586e4a5aef64564ac77299f8586d8be6cf9106a5a40207e8908efb"
 dependencies = [
- "rustix",
+ "rustix 0.36.8",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -7830,6 +7853,20 @@ dependencies = [
  "nom",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "rustix"
+version = "0.35.13"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "727a1a6d65f786ec22df8a81ca3121107f235970dc1705ed681d3e6e8b9cd5f9"
+dependencies = [
+ "bitflags",
+ "errno",
+ "io-lifetimes 0.7.5",
+ "libc",
+ "linux-raw-sys 0.0.46",
+ "windows-sys 0.42.0",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "rustix"
 version = "0.36.8"
@@ -7838,9 +7875,9 @@ checksum = "f43abb88211988493c1abb44a70efa56ff0ce98f233b7b276146f1f3f7ba9644"
 dependencies = [
  "bitflags",
  "errno",
- "io-lifetimes",
+ "io-lifetimes 1.0.5",
  "libc",
- "linux-raw-sys",
+ "linux-raw-sys 0.1.4",
  "windows-sys 0.45.0",
 ]
 
@@ -8538,7 +8575,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "once_cell",
  "parity-scale-codec",
  "paste",
- "rustix",
+ "rustix 0.36.8",
  "sc-allocator",
  "sc-executor-common",
  "sc-runtime-test",
@@ -9098,9 +9135,9 @@ name = "sc-storage-monitor"
 version = "0.1.0"
 dependencies = [
  "clap 4.1.4",
+ "fs4",
  "futures",
  "log",
- "nix 0.26.2",
  "sc-client-db",
  "sc-utils",
  "sp-core",
@@ -12055,7 +12092,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "directories-next",
  "file-per-thread-logger",
  "log",
- "rustix",
+ "rustix 0.36.8",
  "serde",
  "sha2 0.10.6",
  "toml",
@@ -12135,7 +12172,7 @@ checksum = "f76ef2e410329aaf8555ac6571d6fe07711be0646dcdf7ff3ab750a42ed2e583"
 dependencies = [
  "object 0.29.0",
  "once_cell",
- "rustix",
+ "rustix 0.36.8",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -12166,7 +12203,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "memoffset 0.6.5",
  "paste",
  "rand 0.8.5",
- "rustix",
+ "rustix 0.36.8",
  "wasmtime-asm-macros",
  "wasmtime-environ",
  "wasmtime-jit-debug",
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 e65b13ff65e11..277a74de08baf 100644
--- a/client/storage-monitor/src/lib.rs
+++ b/client/storage-monitor/src/lib.rs
@@ -17,10 +17,10 @@
 // along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
 use clap::Args;
-use nix::{errno::Errno, sys::statvfs::statvfs};
 use sc_client_db::DatabaseSource;
 use sp_core::traits::SpawnEssentialNamed;
 use std::{
+	io,
 	path::{Path, PathBuf},
 	time::Duration,
 };
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ 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 +117,7 @@ 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)
+		Ok(fs4::available_space(path).map(|s| s / 1_000_000)?)
 	}
 
 	/// Checks if the amount of free space for given `path` is above given `threshold`.