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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: Number of subdirectories limited ?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.004253.3704@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1992Nov17.111130.17833@cs.tu-berlin.de> <1992Nov17.195401.772@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 00:42:53 GMT
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- In <1992Nov17.195401.772@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> jav2d@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Jason Adams Vanvalkenburgh) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- Just backwards. The root directory is the ONLY one with a limit. A
- hard drive root directory has a limit like 2048, or something like
- that (don't hold me to that number, but the order of magnitude is
- right). Once you are off the root directory, the 'directory listing'
- is just another file, and it can be however large a file is allowed to
- be.
-
- The limit is physical disk space.
-
- >Hope this answers your question.
-
- Correct answers are better.
-
- --
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- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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