Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ucla-cs!cit-vax!elroy!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!decvax!decwrl!sun!imagen!atari!portal!cup.portal.com!Thomas_E_Zerucha From: Thomas_E_Zerucha@cup.portal.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: file limits of root directories Message-ID: <3292@cup.portal.com> Date: 18 Feb 88 01:23:08 GMT References: <449@dukempd.UUCP> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 4 XPortal-User-Id: 1.1001.3273 This is also a limit in MSDOS. The root directory's size is specified in the boot sector at format time. Floppies normally default to 128, Hard disks to 256, but if you edit the boot sector, you can make it any number you want (@16 entries per 512 bytes sector).