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- From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
- Subject: Re: Dumb question about hard disk space
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.054804.9833@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 05:48:04 GMT
- Article-I.D.: qiclab.1992Dec16.054804.9833
- References: <1992Dec6.063502.45430@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- Reply-To: Leonard.Erickson@f51.n105.z1.fidonet.org
- Organization: SCN Research/Qic Laboratories of Tigard, Oregon.
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- miner@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
-
- >I'm a relatively new MSDOS 5 user with a dumb question.
-
- >I have a 105MB hard disk and I knew it was filling up, but was
- >surprised recently when I was copying files onto it and I got an
- >"insufficient disk space" message. CHKDSK told me I still had about
- >30MB left.
-
- >Although my DOS manual says nothing about this, could it be because
- >DOS itself takes up about 30MB? Or--what's going on?
-
- It's also possible that you ran out of space in the root directory.
- The root directory only has "slots" for 512 filenames. Subdirectories
- and the volume label also take up slots.
-
- Subdirectories can expand, to provide more slots. But the root directory
- can't. That's one of the reasons *why* you put stuff in subdirectories.
-
- As a matter of fact, you should have as few files as possible in the
- root directory.
-
- --
- Leonard Erickson leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com
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