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Article #41328Re: Directory Limits??!!
From: HC Johnson
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1990 14:59
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1990 14:59
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In article <276.25E65B7C@uscacm.UUCP>, Ron.Hollins@uscacm.UUCP (Ron Hollins) writes: > > Question: Is there a limit to the total number of files that a > double-sided floppy disk can contain. (I'm NOT refering to the 40 > folder limit). I suspect that the 'FAT' must have a ceiling to it. > If someone does know this 'magic' number , might you also suggest a > technique to trap for this disk 'error'. I'm using GFA 3.07 > Thanks, > Ron, The floppy ROOT directory has 112 entries in it. Each can, of course, be a directory. Each of these is limited by the number of fat entries, which is to say the storage on the disk. A 720 K disk has about 720 clusters and if you assigned 700 directories (no files) you would surely fill it up. I suspect its the 112 limit that you are confronting. Howard C. Johnson ATT Bell Labs att!lzsc!hcj hcj@lzsc.att.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!dptg!lzsc!hcj From: hcj@lzsc.ATT.COM (HC Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Directory Limits??!! Message-ID: <1332@lzsc.ATT.COM> Date: 26 Feb 90 14:59:09 GMT References: <276.25E65B7C@uscacm.UUCP> Organization: AT&T BL Middletown/Lincroft NJ USA Lines: 20