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Re: [WIN] drive space used != total file space used; whynot?

• Posted by Kat <gertie at PELL.NET> Feb 09, 2002
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On 9 Feb 2002, at 16:53, Dan Moyer wrote:

> 
> Euman,
> 
> Thanks, but that's not what I need.  I'm not looking for FREE space on a
> drive, I'm trying to display the space USED by all directories on a drive.
> I'm getting that ok (verified afterward by using "properties" on each
> directory & comparing), but when I SUM UP all the space used by all
> directories (& also all files on the drive which are not in directories),
> and compare that to what I see when I use "properties" on the DRIVE itself,
> the
> "properties" says there's more space used up on the drive than the summing of
> the directories says.
> 
> So I'm wondering what I'm missing.
> 
> Anybody got any idea what might be going on?

How about the space used by the file names themselves? Remember too, 
the long file names (over 8.3) take up more space. And the directory and 
subdirectory space the filenames live in with their pointers to the files 
themselves (the FAT, 2 or 3 of them, depending). And round everything up to 
the nearest cluster increment.

Kat