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Article #23729Re: yet another # of files limitation
From: Gordan Palameta
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1986 08:45
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1986 08:45
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----------------- There is still another limitation on number of files... Namely, on a floppy disk, the root directory cannot have more than 112 files in it... This is calculated as follows: by default 7 sectors are allocated for root directory info on a floppy disk, where a sector is 512 bytes... each directory entry takes up 32 bytes. 7 * 512 / 32 = 112 files. I haven't actually tested this limit out in practice, but I think my arithmetic is correct. Of course, more files could be put in folders and the like... Gordan Palameta Usenet: !seismo!mnetor!genat!maccs!gordan
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site maccs.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!genat!maccs!gordan From: gordan@maccs.UUCP (Gordan Palameta) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: yet another # of files limitation Message-ID: <145@maccs.UUCP> Date: Sun, 30-Nov-86 03:45:23 EST Article-I.D.: maccs.145 Posted: Sun Nov 30 03:45:23 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Nov-86 19:36:14 EST References: <706@imagen.UUCP> Reply-To: gordan@maccs.UUCP (Gordan Palameta) Distribution: net Organization: DCSS, McMaster University Lines: 14