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- Info(V1.3, 2.x, 3.x in C:)
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- NAME
- Info - report information about mounted file
- system(s).
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- SYNOPSIS
- Info NAME DATES
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- DESCRIPTION
- This command displays important and useful
- information about each disk unit. INFO displays what disk
- volumes are in use and the amount of strorage they have.
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- INFO also will display the name of all the disks
- residing in any physical disk drive. This is helpful if
- you in helping you remember what volumes are mounted
- where. You also get a list of available volumes is also
- listed (those mounted and unmounted).
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- The 3 1/2 inch disk has 880k of space available to
- them. After you format it under OFS (Old File System) you
- only have 837k left. If you use FFS (Fast File System)
- you have a full 879k to use. If you are fortunate enough
- to have a high density drive, then you can use 1759k of
- disk space.
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- The entire disk format is stored in sectors. There
- are 1758 usable sectors on the Amiga disk. OFS's divide
- each sector into 488 bytes whereas FFS has a full 512
- bytes per sector. High Density disks use 3518 bytes per
- sector. INFO will report the number of sectors already
- used on the disk and how many are available for use. RAM:
- is dynamic. That means, it will always be reported as
- 100% full (even if it is empty) and will expand as needed
- until it is full.
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- INFO will also report if there are any 'soft' errors
- on your disk. So, what is a soft error? Well, it is a
- temporary error. For example, an error reading
- information from a disk. If the system cannot read the
- information off the disk, it will retry a couple times.
- If all reads fail then you have a hard error. If one of
- your reads is successful then the original read that
- failed is flagged as a soft error.
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- It also reports whether or not disk disk is write
- protected. If it is listed as 'Read Only' then your write
- protection tab is set. If it is listed as 'Read/Write'
- then it can be written to as well as read. The RAM: disk
- cannot be protected from reading or writing, but the
- files you put in there can be protected from deletion
- with the use of the PROTECT command.
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- KEYWORDS
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- NAME
- This keyword lets you get the information of one
- particular device without getting all the info for
- everything else.
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- EXAMPLES
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- 1. To show the information regarding the disk volumes
- known to the filing system:
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- INFO
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- 2. To print out the information regarding the disk
- volumes known to the filing system:
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- INFO > PRT:
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- 3. To show only the information pertaining to df1:
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- INFO df1:
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