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Humpty

Oct 2 2006, 10:27 PM

A bit of trivia on XP.

Apparently XP creates a hidden $logfile which equates to 5 or so meg per gig of disk space.

To see the size of your hidden $logfile open command prompt and type " CHKDSK C: /L " without quotes.

My C drive is 5.5 gig with the $logfile taking up 30,175kb.

As I like to thin out XP wonder if it can be resized.

Some info

TheFiresInTheSky

Oct 2 2006, 10:31 PM

30GB-65536KB

pretty interesting though..

New_Age

Oct 3 2006, 12:57 AM

QUOTE(TheFiresInTheSky @ Oct 2 2006, 06:31 PM) [snapback]51046[/snapback]

30GB-65536KB

pretty interesting though..

lol, Mines almost the same Aaron! Only by a few KBs behide...

burtman

Oct 6 2006, 01:17 PM

I'm thinking 65536KB must be the max size for all.

I've a 250Gb drive, and it reports 65536 also.

burtman

Oct 6 2006, 01:27 PM

QUOTE(Humpty @ Oct 2 2006, 11:27 PM) [snapback]51045[/snapback]

As I like to thin out XP wonder if it can be resized.

It can be re-sized by using chkdsk c: /L:<size> (size in bytes, I guess)
Not sure if you can reduce it tho - might be for increasing only.

Worth trying it anyway.

Humpty

Oct 6 2006, 02:28 PM

QUOTE(burtman @ Oct 6 2006, 01:27 PM) [snapback]51449[/snapback]

It can be re-sized by using chkdsk c: /L:<size> (size in bytes, I guess)
Not sure if you can reduce it tho - might be for increasing only.

Worth trying it anyway.

Thanks burtman, will look into it.

Eldmannen

Oct 7 2006, 01:48 AM

CODE

C:\>CHKDSK C: /L
The type of the file system is FAT32.
Windows can set log file size on NTFS volumes only.

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