From: lhall AT rfk DOT com (Larry Hall)
Subject: Re: B20: df bug (NT 4.0 SP4) reports max disk size of 2.0 GB
  only
19 Nov 1998 09:08:18 -0800
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To: Anders Norlander <anorland AT hem2 DOT passagen DOT se>,
        Krishna Sampath <ksampath AT ekwireless DOT com>
Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

At 11:46 AM 11/18/98 +0100, Anders Norlander wrote:
>Krishna Sampath wrote:
>> 
>> the df command reports the same file size for all the disks on the
>> system.... i have 4 GHz disks but the program reports the following:
>> 
>> Filesystem         1024-blocks  Used Available Capacity Mounted on
>> \\.\tape1:           2096450 1862158   234292     89%   /dev/st1
>> \\.\tape0:           2096450 1862158   234292     89%   /dev/st0
>> \\.\b:               2096450 1862158   234292     89%   /dev/fd1
>> \\.\a:               2096450 1862158   234292     89%   /dev/fd0
>> C:                   2096450 1862158   234292     89%   /
>> 
>> any ideas?
>
>This is due to a bug in win32 API GetFreeDiskSpace which return
>incorrect values for disks >2GB.
>
>Anders Norlander


I think this is only true for FAT partitions.  df reports fine here for
NTFS partitions >2GB and the doc doesn't talk about NTFS partitions...


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