How much of the free space of a device goes away after creating a new file on it?

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From: MR
Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 22:41

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I want to find out if there is enough space on a harddisk-partition
(FAT32 or NTFS) to copying some files into it.

Before trying to implement it I tried out manually (in the dos-box)
how much disk-space would go away if I create a new small file onto it
by doing
  echo >f:\tst.txt hello  

I was (and am) a little confused, that the free space on this
partition did not change at all.

(I supposed at least the cluster-size would go away...)

So my question:

How can I find out how much of the free space of a drive f: would go
away if I copy a file (from within a program) to it?

Also how much of the free space of f: would go away if I create a
directory on it?

Thanks a lot,

Michael

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