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From: madd@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: directory size
Message-ID: <849@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 21-Mar-87 17:09:20 EST
Article-I.D.: bucsb.849
Posted: Sat Mar 21 17:09:20 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 22-Mar-87 17:56:29 EST
References: <202@eurifb.UUCP>
Reply-To: madd@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP (Jim "Jack" Frost)
Organization: ODO (Organization for the Disorganization of Organization)
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Keywords: entries, maximum

In article <202@eurifb.UUCP> benno@eurifb.UUCP (Ben Noordzij) writes:
>Does anyone know how many entries are allowed in a (sub)directory ??

In the root directory, the maximum depends on the size of the disk.  I
can't remember exactly how it's determined, but it's usually plenty of
entries for the disk size.  Subdirectories are not supposed to have a
maximum number of entries.  I suspect that they do have a maximum, but
it's probably a maximum related to the DOS maximum file size, ie 32mb.
This would be a large number of files, so for all practical purposes,
it's unlimited.

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