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From: gordan@maccs.UUCP (Gordan Palameta)
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Subject: Re: yet another # of files limitation
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Date: Sun, 30-Nov-86 03:45:23 EST
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There is still another limitation on number of files...
Namely, on a floppy disk, the root directory cannot have more than
112 files in it... 

This is calculated as follows:  by default 7 sectors are allocated for
root directory info on a floppy disk, where a sector is 512 bytes...
each directory entry takes up 32 bytes.  7 * 512 / 32 = 112 files.
I haven't actually tested this limit out in practice, but I think my
arithmetic is correct.  Of course, more files could be put in folders
and the like...


Gordan Palameta    Usenet:  !seismo!mnetor!genat!maccs!gordan