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Re:No Space Left on Device by jaredsohn on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @02:53AM (#12434058)
> when there was quite a low limit on the number of files that you could store in the root directory. I can't remember the exact numbers

512?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#Final_FA... (see the last paragraph.)

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Re:No Space Left on Device by cyberferret on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @02:56AM (#12434073)
That sounds about right. It was a ridiculously low number, and even back in the days of 10MB hard drives, it was easy to bust that number with just batch and text files...
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