Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/03/21/14:25:39
At 12:26 20-3-97 GMT, you wrote:
> Uh, fellas, maybe y'all should step back and think for a second.
>Sure, this well may be a bug in the df.exe program, but it is actually a
>blessing in disguise. The problem here is not really the df.exe, but rather
>the fact that someone is using a computer with a 2 gig partition. This
makes
>absolutely no sense. You guys do realize that it doesn't matter how "big" a
>hard drive is, in DOS, it can never contain more than 32767 files per
>partition. You're wasting a ton of disk space by setting your cluster
size to
>64K. So maybe rewriting df.exe isn't the solution to this problem, but
>rather, repatitioning your disk to something reasonable is.
AFAIK, the 2 gig partition we are talking about was a NTFS partition, and
NTFS partitions have a 512 bytes cluster size.
Besides, I tested these things on my NTFS partition (811 MB) too, and the
results weren't correct either.
Erik Post
Student Computer Sciences at University of Twente, The Netherlands
e-mail: erik DOT post AT student DOT utwente DOT nl
WWW: http://wwwedu.cs.utwente.nl/~post/
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