[SLUG] vfat partition mounted wrongly reported as file system full

2002-02-16 Thread Christopher Booth
I have a Dos fat16 partition mounted automatically at bootup /dev/hda6 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,rw 0 0 I use this drive as a storage drive as the machine is dual boot Windows NT 4 (NTFS), and Mandrake 8.1 (EXT3) because fat is read-writeable from both OSes. I have been

Re: [SLUG] vfat partition mounted wrongly reported as file system full

2002-02-16 Thread Steve Kowalik
At 8:23 pm, Saturday, February 16 2002, Christopher Booth mumbled: > I am wondering if there is a maximum amount of files that the file system driver can >read on fat16 drives ? That I'm not sure about. > I'm not sure how to do file count on the drive to see how many files I have. > How do you

Re: [SLUG] vfat partition mounted wrongly reported as file system full

2002-02-17 Thread Christopher Booth
I think it has something to do with the amount of files. I found info that said that a vfat root directory can have up to 512 files (including folders). I didn't have this many. Even so, I deleted two folders with however many files I thought maybe it was a maximum amount of folders, so I create