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From: koreth@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Steven Grimm)
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Subject: Re: How accurate is that show info. thing?
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Date: 5 Oct 88 19:17:06 GMT
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(the author wonders how a disk can be full if all the file sizes total less
 than the amount of space on the disk...)

Remember that disks are split up into 1K blocks, and that those blocks are
the minimum unit of disk space that can be allocated.  When you create a
1-byte file, you lose 1024 bytes of free space on the disk (or 2048, if you
are writing to a folder that needs to get bigger to hold the new file entry).
Thus, 360 1-byte files would fill up a single-sided disk, though show info
(and the "bytes used" field in desktop windows) would only show 360 bytes
being used.

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These are my opinions, and in no way reflect those of UCSC, which are wrong.
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