I 'm using fat32, the big plus for freedos. cheers DS
On Wed, 13 Nov 2019 15:49:39 -0500 dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> writes: > On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 3:35 PM Dale E Sterner <sunbeam...@juno.com> > wrote: > > > > Tried copy again and this time it worked - including wildcards. > > I've been running TCL for a week and maybe it did something > > it shouldn't have. Still had trouble with the move command; > > it comes back [Insufficient disk space in destination path] > > I have 30 gigs of freespace. I have 2 gigs used out of 32 gigs. > > Maybe it thinks 2 gigs is the limit for some reason? > > What file system is on your CF card? > > Remember that when DOS was first written, the maximum size of a > volume > *was* 2GB. > > That was a limitation of the FAT16 file system. The smallest unit of > disk DOS could address was the cluster. Each cluster needed a unique > address. 16 bit addressing meant a maximum of 65,536 unique cluster > addresses. The maximum size a cluster could be was imposed by the > FORMAT command, and was 32K. 65,536 x 32 = .2,097,152â¬, or a 2GB > volume. > > FAT32 was developed precisely to permit larger volumes as hard drives > got higher capacities. > > It sounds like something on your end thinks the volume size limit is > the FAT16 2GB, and isn't aware of the other 30GB. > > > DS > ______ > Dennis > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ******************************************************>>>> >From Dale Sterner - MS organic chemistry http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jo00975a052 *******************************************************>>>> ____________________________________________________________ Forget Viagra: This Pill "Destroys" ED Without Prescription! Med Journal http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/5dcc7032817ac7032479est04duc
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