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In article <1992Nov18.194342.20953@newstand.syr.edu>
	amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allen J Michielsen) writes:

>One more piece of this, is that 360K system disks have a limit of 112 files,
>114 for non-system disks.  However, in eithercase...   The root FAT can also
>run out of room.  This occurs when you have lots and lots of little files and
>the disk is heavily fragmented.  This (probably) is impossible for a 360K
>floppy but not for other disks.  But, again, subdir's help to eliminate this.

There is no such animal as a 'root FAT'.  DOS disks have ONE FAT
for the whole disk.  Actually, most of them have two exact copies of
the FAT, but since they're exact copies, they are, in effect, one FAT.

Entries in the FAT are one per cluster, which can either be a flag
indicating Reserved, Bad, or Unused, or a pointer to the next cluster
in the file or an EOF flag.  Therefore, when you're out of FAT
entries, you're out of space on the disk.  Plain and simple.  Yes, the
root DIRECTORY has a limit, but that's the only limit other than
physical disk space imposed on the disk.  

I know someone has said this before, but people don't seem to believe
that this is true...   Oh well.

todd.


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