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Article #3022Re: Dumb question about hard disk space
From: Leonard Erickson
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 05:48
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 05:48
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miner@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes: >I'm a relatively new MSDOS 5 user with a dumb question. >I have a 105MB hard disk and I knew it was filling up, but was >surprised recently when I was copying files onto it and I got an >"insufficient disk space" message. CHKDSK told me I still had about >30MB left. >Although my DOS manual says nothing about this, could it be because >DOS itself takes up about 30MB? Or--what's going on? It's also possible that you ran out of space in the root directory. The root directory only has "slots" for 512 filenames. Subdirectories and the volume label also take up slots. Subdirectories can expand, to provide more slots. But the root directory can't. That's one of the reasons *why* you put stuff in subdirectories. As a matter of fact, you should have as few files as possible in the root directory. -- Leonard Erickson leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com CIS: [70465,203] 70465.203@compuserve.com FIDO: 1:105/51 Leonard.Erickson@f51.n105.z1.fidonet.org (The CIS & Fido addresses are preferred)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!news.u.washington.edu!ogicse!psgrain!qiclab!leonard From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: Dumb question about hard disk space Message-ID: <1992Dec16.054804.9833@qiclab.scn.rain.com> Date: 16 Dec 92 05:48:04 GMT Article-I.D.: qiclab.1992Dec16.054804.9833 References: <1992Dec6.063502.45430@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Reply-To: Leonard.Erickson@f51.n105.z1.fidonet.org Organization: SCN Research/Qic Laboratories of Tigard, Oregon. Lines: 27