Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!gatech!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!uta!kielo!av From: av@kielo.uta.fi (Arto V. Viitanen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Size of disk Message-ID: Date: 12 Nov 90 08:30:12 GMT Sender: news@uta.fi Reply-To: av@uta.fi (Arto Viitanen) Distribution: comp Organization: University of Tampere, Finland Lines: 14 Nntp-Posting-Host: uta.fi I had following experience: FAT table and/or directories of my hard disk went nuts (maybe my fault, maybe Unisys's NOW! disk cache). Anyway, I formatted the disk, or actually a logical disk of 32Mbytes from a 80MB harddisk. When I checked the disk after formatting with DIR, it told that I have 4.8M byte free ! This is about the same size as there were before formatting. When I checked the disk with CHKDSK, it told that there are 32MB bytes free. When I tried again with DIR, it told that there are 32M bytes free. So, where does DOS keep its information of the size of the disk ? -- Arto V. Viitanen email: av@kielo.uta.fi University Of Tampere, av@ohdake.cs.uta.fi Finland