Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site uiucdcsp.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcsp!forbus From: forbus@uiucdcsp.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Hard disk overhead? Message-ID: <10800003@uiucdcsp.UUCP> Date: Mon, 21-Jan-85 01:36:00 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcsp.10800003 Posted: Mon Jan 21 01:36:00 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 22-Jan-85 05:35:12 EST Lines: 8 Nf-ID: #N:uiucdcsp:10800003:000:395 Nf-From: uiucdcsp!forbus Jan 21 00:36:00 1985 When counting up the files used in the various directories on my Compaq-plus, I found that a little over 3MB were accounted for. Yet the checkdisk program claims that just over 7MB are in use, with 28KB in "hidden files". One might expect a little bit of overhead for directory pointers and such, but this amount seems absurd. Does anyone have a theory that will account for the discreprency?