From: anorland@hem2.passagen.se (Anders Norlander)
Subject: Re: B20: df bug (NT 4.0 SP4) reports max disk size of 2.0 GB only
18 Nov 1998 12:09:21 -0800
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To: Krishna Sampath <ksampath@ekwireless.com>
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Krishna Sampath wrote:
> 
> the df command reports the same file size for all the disks on the
> system.... i have 4 GHz disks but the program reports the following:
> 
> Filesystem         1024-blocks  Used Available Capacity Mounted on
> \\.\tape1:           2096450 1862158   234292     89%   /dev/st1
> \\.\tape0:           2096450 1862158   234292     89%   /dev/st0
> \\.\b:               2096450 1862158   234292     89%   /dev/fd1
> \\.\a:               2096450 1862158   234292     89%   /dev/fd0
> C:                   2096450 1862158   234292     89%   /
> 
> any ideas?

This is due to a bug in win32 API GetFreeDiskSpace which return
incorrect values for disks >2GB.

Anders Norlander
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