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Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970321132148.00928430@modempool.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 13:21:53 -0500
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: bpmann AT modempool DOT com (Brian Mann)
Subject: Re: novice errors? dpmi, info, groff, df
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>        Uh, fellas, maybe y'all should step back and think for a second.  
>Sure, this well may be a bug in the df.exe program, but it is actually a 
>blessing in disguise.  The problem here is not really the df.exe, but rather 
>the fact that someone is using a computer with a 2 gig partition.  This
makes 
>absolutely no sense.  You guys do realize that it doesn't matter how "big" a 
>hard drive is, in DOS, it can never contain more than 32767 files per 
>partition.  You're wasting a ton of disk space by setting your cluster
size to 
>64K.  So maybe rewriting df.exe isn't the solution to this problem, but 
>rather, repatitioning your disk to something reasonable is.
>
>                                        PV
>
Uh, he's using NT with NTFS , it uses 512 byte clusters.

Brian

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