On Fri, 05 Apr 2002 13:20:33 +0100, Graham Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> Hi Y'all > > Another dumb newbie question. > > I have this here floppy disk formatted for dos, with an entire website > on it. According to readings under both Windows and Linux it is 41% full. > > Anyway in my tireless quest to do all my work in Linux and rid my box of > Windoze forever, I did some work on the site using Netscape Composer > which involved adding a new page and graphics to the site. So far, so good. > > However, when I tried to save work to this disk, or copy files onto it, > I got messages informing me that the disk was full. > > I copied the entire site onto an ext2 formatted disk without any > problems and carried on working, all worked saved and files copied, no > problem. > > But I really wanted to have this stuff on a disk accessible by Windows - > not for myself so much as for other less enlightened people who need to > see the work before it goes on the web. So I tried to copy the whole lot > onto a blank floppy and woe is me, it still would not fit even though df > told me that about 40 odd percent of the disk had been used. > > Is this usual, or am I doing something wrong? Maybe something is > reading these disks as though they were 720k disks, then again maybe not. > > Any info gratefully received. > > > Power to the Penguin!
Did you try to store all the files in the root directory of the disc? FAT filesystems have a limit on the number of files that can be stored in the root directory. Try storing things in a subdirectory. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place." -- Douglas Adams
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