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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLF: FAT16 problem: demonstration and proof
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Grier,

Here are the results from your command sequence
on the two partitions I have on a 486 tower PC.

Many thanks for the great tips!

/s/ Paul Mitchell
http://www.supremelaw.com


Paul Mitchell's Windows 3.11 machine,
with relatively new Western Digital 1.6 GB
EIDE hard drive, assigned to partition C:,
no disk compression:

C:\> dir c:\ /s

[long list of files here]

Total files listed:
   20,065 file(s)    904,348,728 bytes
                     225,771,520 bytes free  (now annotate:)
                   -------------
REAL  CAPACITY:    1,130,120,248 bytes
RATED CAPACITY:    1,622,343,680 bytes (see CHKDSK below)
                   -------------
WASTED SPACE:        492,223,432 bytes! (RATED - REAL)

PERCENT WASTED:             30.3%  (492/1622)

C:\> chkdsk

Volume primary486  created 11-23-1996 9:35p
Volume Serial Number is C729-1F9C

1,622,343,680 bytes total disk space
   57,081,856 bytes in 6 hidden files
   36,274,176 bytes in 1,107 directories
1,303,216,128 bytes in 16,744 user files
  225,771,520 bytes available on disk

       32,768 bytes in each allocation unit (cluster size)
       49,510 total allocation units on disk (number of clusters)
        6,890 available allocation units on disk

[snip]

Now we do the same sequence on the D: drive,
a 340 MB Western Digital, vintage 1993,
no compression (and still running great):

C:\> d:
D:\> dir d:\ /s

[long list of files here]

Total files listed:
    9,782 file(s)    292,469,197 bytes
                       6,864,896 bytes free (now annotate:)
                     -----------
REAL  CAPACITY:      299,334,093 bytes
RATED CAPACITY:      340,746,240 bytes (see CHKDSK below)
                     -----------
WASTED SPACE:         41,412,147 bytes (RATED - REAL)

PERCENT WASTED:             12.1% (41/340)

D:\> chkdsk

Volume second486   created 11-23-1996 9:36p
Volume Serial Number is E3E2-5496

  340,746,240 bytes total disk space
       81,920 bytes in 2 hidden files
    5,660,672 bytes in 682 directories
  328,138,752 bytes in 7,736 user files
    6,864,896 bytes available on disk

        8,192 bytes in each allocation unit (cluster size)
       41,595 total allocation units on disk (number of clusters)
          838 available allocation units on disk

[snip]

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