From: lmauro AT scientist DOT com (Leo Mauro) Subject: RE: Cygwinb19.dll 2 Jul 1998 09:09:00 -0700 Message-ID: <000401bda55f$d041a0c0$1e6e31cf.cygnus.gnu-win32@leo-nt.rd.telesystech.com> References: <01IYVQHEJGQQ00007Z AT scottish-newcastle DOT co DOT uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: On Wednesday, July 01, 1998 04:13 AM, Robert Cross wrote: > Side point, I remember reading somewhere that Win'95 has quite a > low limit on the number of files permitted in a directory. Not completely true. The root directories of FAT partitions have a fixed size (established at format time), and cannot grow. All other directories can grow dynamically, and therefore have no other limit than the one imposed by available free space. I do not remember out of the top of my head how FORMAT decides what the root directory's size should be, but I do remember that a directory can store 16 entries per 512-byte sector. Anyway, the root directory's capacity is fairly generous. I just did a spot check of 5 FAT partitions in 3 different drives, and the diagnostic tool reported capacities ranging from 512 to 800 entries in the various root directories. But remember that long file names take up two or more entries: one or more to store the long file name (depending on how long it is), and another for the abbreviated 8.3 DOS name. The only case I remember of the root directory size limit actually revealing itself was when a partition repair tool created hundreds of files and directories in the root directory as it repaired a badly damaged file system. That tool eventually couldn't create any more entries and stopped. The partition was so badly damaged anyway that I ended up reformatting it... Leo Mauro Principal Scientist TeleSys Technologies, Inc. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".