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From: csan@its63b.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Disappearing disk space
Message-ID: <264@its63b.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 16-Feb-87 06:52:07 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 16 06:52:07 1987
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Reply-To: csan@its63b.ed.ac.uk (Andie)
Organization: Cmputer Science Department, Edinburgh University
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In article <8702140040.AA01809@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> UD140469@NDSUVM1.BITNET (Scott Udell) writes:
>I've recently been running into some trouble with disk space dissappearing from
>my double sided disks.  Strange things have been happening on and off for a
>long time, but I haven't been paying any attention to it because, until today,

I found this as well ....
What I think *MIGHT* be happening is this :-

	When a file is saved on disk , it takes up a number of slots (I think
they are about 2K long) . Even if the file is empty , it takes up 2K . So
having empty files lying around is not economical . I assume directories take
up this 2K thing as well . The FAT trak doesnt need to be extended I dont think
as it already holds enough information for a disk full of blank files .

This may all be totally wrong ... These are just my thoughts on the matter .


Andie Ness . Department of Computer Science 
              EDINBURGH University.

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