From: lhall@rfk.com (Larry Hall) Subject: Re: B20: df bug (NT 4.0 SP4) reports max disk size of 2.0 GB only 19 Nov 1998 09:08:18 -0800 Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19981118170815.00b0aac0.cygnus.gnu-win32@pop.ma.ultranet.com> References: <3652A570.91ABA7E0@hem2.passagen.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Anders Norlander , Krishna Sampath Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com At 11:46 AM 11/18/98 +0100, Anders Norlander wrote: >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 I think this is only true for FAT partitions. df reports fine here for NTFS partitions >2GB and the doc doesn't talk about NTFS partitions... Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (781) 239-1053 8 Grove Street (781) 239-1655 - FAX Wellesley, MA 02482-7797 http://www.rfk.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".