9GB Drives Show Up as 4GB

Peter Blake ppb at baloo.tcp.co.uk
Tue Jul 21 07:19:24 GMT 1998


On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Smith, Doug K NWW wrote:

> In NT Explorer, my 9GB usr shares show up as 4GB.
> Any suggestions?

This is an M$ feature. They (M$) claim to have 64-bit variables in the NT
file sub-system, which may well be true, BUT many of the other M$ products
use 32 bits, some signed and some unsigned, to report queries made of the
file sub-system.

There has been some other correspondence on this list on the same subject.
Recently. Try reading it.


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Peter Blake
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ppb at baloo.tcp.co.uk




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