Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!portal!atari!apratt
From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: file limits of root directories
Message-ID: <982@atari.UUCP>
Date: 17 Feb 88 20:50:41 GMT
References: <449@dukempd.UUCP>
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA
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in article <449@dukempd.UUCP>, gpm@dukempd.UUCP (Guy Metcalfe) says:

> 	Question:  is there a 100 file limit on root directories?

Yes.  There is a hard limit set at format time: the root directory size
of any GEMDOS (and MS-DOS) logical device is constant. 

Subdirectories don't have this problem because they are allocated as
files; when there's no more room, another cluster is allocated to the
end.

What *is* unfortunate is that subdirectories never shrink.  If you
create 1024 files in a subdirectory, then erase them all, you'll have
an "empty" subdirectory which takes up 32 clusters on your disk.
Removing the subdirectory (rmdir) reclaims that space.

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