On 17 Dec 98 at 17:56, David Coulthart wrote:

> I keep a partition of one of my two hard drives in Windows NT
> devoted to storing my MP3z.  I am therefore not particularly
> worried about filling up the entire drive, which might hurt
> performance, because only the MP3z are stored on the drive.
> However, the partition is 948 MB in size and NT is now forcing me
> to leave 23.1 MB of space free.  Initially I was forced to leave
> approximately 27.2 MB free.  However, I shifted 502 MB of files
> from the drive and then wiped the free space of the drive and was
> eventually allowed an extra 4 MB.  Yet I still can not convince NT
> to allow me to fill the rest of the drive.  Whenever I try to move
> a file from another partition (it is approximately 1.5 MB in size)
> NT informs me that it was unable to move the file because there was
> not enough free space on the drive.  Now considering I'm attempting
> to move a 1.5 MB file onto a partition with 23.1 MB free this seems
> ridiculous to me.  I do not seem to have this problem with any
> other partition on the computer, because I was able to fill another
> partition, that is 500 MB in size, so that it only had 3.x MB left
> free.  I can not seem to reason why this is occuring on this single
> drive, the only thoughts I have are possibly that Diskeeper is
> limiting the drive, i changed some tiny setting somewhere that I
> can not now find, or there is possibly a virus that has infected
> only this partition?!?  The last idea seems ridiculous but I have
> no other idea as to what might be causing such strange behavior.
> If anyone could provide an answer to this dilemna I would greatly
> appreciate it.

  What is the format of the partition?  Are you putting these files
into subdirectories, or just dropping them at the root?

  [FAT partitions have a limit on how many entries the root directory
can hold.  Not sure if NTFS has the same limitation, but FAT
partitions converted to NTFS tend to wind up with tiny cluster sizes
which *might* produce an effect like this as well.]

David G

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