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Article #6342Re: Number of subdirectories limited ?
From: Jason Adams Vanvalkenburgh
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 19:54
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 19:54
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ernst@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de writes: > Hi, > > I know there is a limitation on the number of subdirectories in the > root directory, but is there any limitation in directories other > than "\" ? > > Thanks for any info, Ernst. > -- > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Ernst Kloecker phone: ++49-30-6181635 e-mail: ernst@cs.tu-berlin.de > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The FAT system only allows a maximum number of file entries. I'm not sure about numbers, but I remember reading that a 360K floppy couldn`t have any more than 112 file entries. Therefore 112 0-byte files would actually fill up the disk, because the FAT tables were full. Larger capacity disks have proportionally more space allocated for the FAT tables, etc. I had never heard of limitations for the root directory, though. Hope this answers your question. -- Jason A. vanValkenburgh University of Virginia '95 jav2d@virginia.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer,alt.msdos.programmer Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ukma!wupost!darwin.sura.net!uvaarpa!murdoch!faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU!jav2d From: jav2d@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Jason Adams Vanvalkenburgh) Subject: Re: Number of subdirectories limited ? Message-ID: <1992Nov17.195401.772@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: University of Virginia References: <1992Nov17.111130.17833@cs.tu-berlin.de> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 19:54:01 GMT Lines: 28