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- From: jav2d@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Jason Adams Vanvalkenburgh)
- Subject: Re: Number of subdirectories limited ?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.195401.772@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Organization: University of Virginia
- References: <1992Nov17.111130.17833@cs.tu-berlin.de>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 19:54:01 GMT
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- ernst@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de writes:
- > Hi,
- >
- > I know there is a limitation on the number of subdirectories in the
- > root directory, but is there any limitation in directories other
- > than "\" ?
- >
- > Thanks for any info, Ernst.
- > --
- >
- > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- > Ernst Kloecker phone: ++49-30-6181635 e-mail: ernst@cs.tu-berlin.de
- > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- The FAT system only allows a maximum number of file entries. I'm not
- sure about numbers, but I remember reading that a 360K floppy couldn`t
- have any more than 112 file entries. Therefore 112 0-byte files would
- actually fill up the disk, because the FAT tables were full. Larger
- capacity disks have proportionally more space allocated for the FAT
- tables, etc. I had never heard of limitations for the root directory,
- though.
-
- Hope this answers your question.
-
- --
- Jason A. vanValkenburgh
- University of Virginia '95
- jav2d@virginia.edu
-