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Date:	Sun, 14 Sep 2003 13:55:49 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: DIR/Details totals ?

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In <20030914191224.8DE736DEBE@smtp3.pacifier.net>, on 09/14/03
at 12:10 PM, said:

>"dir" or "dir /s" does not give you the total space required to for any
>file or directory.

True. It only provides a sum of the logical file sizes.

>On my system doing a "dir /s" on the desktop directory gives this answer

>Total files listed:
> 1033 file(s) 5336459 bytes used

Now, that is a stuffed Desktop.

>For a lot of the
>desktop objects the file size is zero as the data are kept in the
>extended attributes and or the system INI files.

Few of the physical objects will have 0 size. The ones that do are
usually Templates. The abstract objects are stored entirely in the INIs
and will have no file associated with them.

>This means that to find
>out how much space a file/directory needs you need some other program to
>compute the space since the "dir" command does not do it.

Even if you ignore the extended attributes, the sum shown by dir is not a
true measure of the space required. It does not account for the slack
space or for the space required to store the directory entry.

Steven

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