Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20010901135935.024fc1c8@pop3.cris.com> X-Sender: rrschulz AT pop3 DOT cris DOT com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2001 14:07:17 -0700 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, Jon Mitchell From: Randall R Schulz Subject: Re: Disk Space for Cygwin In-Reply-To: <3B914701.4B6E9342@softhome.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Jon, Are you using a FAT volume? What's the total capacity? More importantly, what's the allocation granularity for that volume? Cygwin, like its Unix counterparts, comprises very many small files. My full and current Cygwin directory includes 14,522 files totalling 209,909,451 bytes. On my NTFS volume, the actual space occupied by these files is 236 MB. The average file size in my installation 14,455. If your file system volume is using 32 kilobyte allocation units, for example, you'd expect the overall installation to occupy about 475 megabytes instead of the 236 on my NTFS. If you have 64 kilobyte allocation units, the total installation would require about 950 megabytes. In short, it's internal fragmentation of disk files that's making your install so bloated. Just another reason NTFS is preferable to FAT. Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA At 13:37 2001-09-01, you wrote: >I have tried to install cygwin to Win95 using setup.exe to a partition >with 600MB free space but it runs out of disk space. > >Using Explorer the C:\cygwin directory has about 185MB after failing but >I actually have lost 600MB. After deleting C:\Cygwin, I get all 600MB >back. > >Is this normal? > >Jon. Mitchell > > > > >-- >Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html >Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html >FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/