[Virtualacorn-list] CD drives in VRPC-AdjustSA

[Brian Carroll]

In article <1415ba2050.chris at o2.co.uk>, Chris Hughes
<chris at noonehere.co.uk> wrote:
> In message <5020b1505abriancarroll at f2s.com> Brian Carroll
>           <briancarroll at f2s.com> wrote:

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> > I have 2 drives both of which both show as 76Gb using
> > Iconbar_menu > Free. I have no recollection of setting this
> > size which happens to be identical to the total size of the
> > real drive the HostFS discs are mounted. It is far too great
> > and illogical if the VRPC installation has set the sizes.
> > Can the size of a virtual hard disc be set ?

> Remember if you use HOSTFS (which people here are) you are
> using space on the "Windows" hard drive so it show the
> capacity of the Windows drive. Virtual does not set any drive
> size (except if creating an ADFS drive).

OK, I understand that. It means the size of the HostFS drive can
grow indefinitely as long as there is free space on it.  Is that
a good idea?

> > Both the HostFS discs I brought over from the lap top
> > installation (via an external USB drive and/or ShareFS) seem
> > to be stuck at 53Gb used and 23Gb free, ... Do the figures
> > in the 'Free' utility mean anything or is it faulty?

> Not sure I follow this one.

No, not too clear is it :-)

But the answer is clear from what you've said above. The 'Free'
utility is showing the details relevant to the Windows NTFS
drive or partition on which the HostFS directory is stored; not,
as I expected, the total size of the RISC OS files. It means
that the 'Free' utility output is meaningless for HostFS
'drives' and IMHO should be disabled.

It works correctly with a memory stick mounted by DrivePop.

Brian.

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Brian Carroll, Ripon, N Yorks, UK  briancarroll at f2s dot com
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