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- From: roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (roy)
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- Subject: Re: Fit lots of files on a floppy??
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- Date: 28 Jan 93 01:54:47 GMT
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- jarnold@tixel.mv.com writes:
-
- > I've got an application where I want to write a LOT of smaller files
- > (around 280 files, each file being around 3K bytes) to this floppy.
- > The total size required (280 * 3000) is clearly lessthan 1.44MB, yet
- > DOS won't let me do it. Not an "insufficient disk space" message, but
- > a bogus message about "can't duplicate file entry". I am assuming this
- > is because of the insufficient space for *directory* entries?
-
- Exactly!
-
- > Is this logical? If so, is there a way (I couldn't find one) to
- > increase the size of each allocation unit from 512 to some other
- > number?
-
- Logical? Sure, in a way. A root directory has to be a fixed size under
- MS-DOS. If you need more filenames, just put them all in a subdirectory.
- But be prepared for some long access times when searching a directory
- like that. It will get pretty badly fragmented.
- --
- Roy M. Silvernail -- [my machine ] "Sometimes, you're the windshield....
- roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu [my opinions] sometimes, you're the bug!"
- cybrspc!roy@cs.umn.edu [my $0.0275 ] --Mark Knopfler
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