To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
cc: dan AT verity DOT ICS DOT UCI DOT EDU
Subject: Re: novice errors? dpmi, info, groff, df
Reply-To: Dan Hirschberg <dan AT ics DOT uci DOT edu>
Organization: UC Irvine Department of ICS
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 09:36:02 -0800
From: Dan Hirschberg <dan AT verity DOT ICS DOT UCI DOT EDU>
Message-ID:  <9703210936.aa21963@paris.ics.uci.edu>


References: <9703181723 DOT aa06452 AT paris DOT ics DOT uci DOT edu> <5gs32k$djo AT netra DOT montana DOT edu>

In <5gs32k$djo AT netra DOT montana DOT edu> pv AT cs DOT montana DOT edu (Paul Peavyhouse) writes:

>        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

My understanding is that Windows NT 4.0 is not DOS and does not
have the restriction that you state.  In particular, running
CHKDSK resulted in a statement that an allocation unit is 512 bytes.

dan
dan AT ics DOT uci DOT edu