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Date: 	Fri, 21 Mar 1997 20:03:48 +0100
To: pv AT cs DOT montana DOT edu (Paul Peavyhouse)
From: Erik Post <erik DOT post AT student DOT utwente DOT nl>
Subject: Re: novice errors? dpmi, info, groff, df
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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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/