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From: aliu@aludra.usc.edu (Alex C. Liu)
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Subject: Re: Don't fill your HD (was: format is brain dead)
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Date: 30 Nov 90 03:58:33 GMT
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In article <1990Nov29.191350.2273@sbcs.sunysb.edu> dtiberio@libws3.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) writes:
>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. :)

Well, I noticed that ALL AmigaDOS scripts creates temp file in T:.
Since the startup-sequence is also a script, then it must write into
your Boot disk when first starting up the machine. (This is even
before you get a chance to assign T: to RAM:)

In order words, you can fill you Disk up to 100% if and only if you
are sure that you are not going to boot from that disk.