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- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 10:57:33 EDT
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- From: "Paul J. Bodin" <pjb3@CUNIXB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Wrong indication of free space
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- Johan Thom writes:
-
- > I recently installed a 213 MB hard disk which I divided into 3 more
- > or less equal partitions, i.e., 70 MB each. Apparently NB is unable
- > to report correctly the amount of free space on a partition of this
- > size. Although there still is ca. 30 MB free on my C drive, the dir
- > command in NB 3.1 only reports 747520 (chars.) free. Both DOS 5.00
- > and Windows 3.1 report the correct amount of free space. Has anybody
- > else encountered this problem?
-
- Yes, this is a known bug in the NB editor through 3.1. Remember the
- editor for NB was written by XyQuest before hard drives with
- partitions larger than 32 megs were possible under DOS. Partitions
- larger than 32 megs confuse this function of NB. The bug is fixed in
- NB4 (at least it works properly by reporting 49 megs free on my 230
- meg HPFS partition--which is above and beyond the call of duty in some
- respects because it isn't even formatted FAT).
-
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