Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!udel!sbcs!libws3!dtiberio From: dtiberio@libws3.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Don't fill your HD (was: format is brain dead) Message-ID: <1990Nov29.191350.2273@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Date: 29 Nov 90 19:13:50 GMT References: <1990Nov25.093445.10710@evax.arl.utexas.edu> <1990Nov27.223354.25258@ecst.csuchico.edu> <90331.211549DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu> Sender: usenet@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Usenet poster) Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Lines: 4 I have had problems with a full 880k disk! Don't believe me? Take a workbench and stuff it with files as best as possible. Then try to open a shell. It will not open the shell on mine, so I assume that some programs write to the disk for some reason and need a little space. Maybe 5k is enough for a floppy. :)