Determining the Amount of Disk Space with Stacker

ID: Q80575

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows versions 3.0, 3.0a

SUMMARY

The best way to accurately determine the amount of free space on a hard drive running Stacker is to run the Scheck utility.

MORE INFORMATION

Stacker is a utility, manufactured by STAC Electronics, that performs hard disk file compression.

To Run Scheck

Exit Windows (running an MS-DOS shell does not work).

At an MS-DOS command line, type
scheck

Press ENTER. A screen similar to the following should be displayed:


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   Scheck 2.0 (c) Copyright 1990-1991 Stac...

   Volume in Drive C has no label

   No errors found

   Stacker Drive Statistics:

                   Stacker Drive           STACKVOL File
                   Drive C:                D:\STACVOL.OOO
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   Total Bytes:    94,994,432              47,498,240
   Bytes Used:     76,947,456  (81.0)     41,699,840
   Bytes Free:     18,046,976              5,798,400

   Stacker Drive Compression Ratio = 1.8:1
   Projected Bytes Free            =  10,575,872


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Information about the amount of free space on the hard drive is on the Bytes Free row in the right column (for example, 5,798,400 in the example above).

For further information concerning this report, please refer to the documentation for Stacker.

The product included here is manufactured by a vendor independent of Microsoft; we make no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding this product's performance or reliability.

Additional query words: Windows 3.0 3.00 3.0a 3.00a stack

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Version : WINDOWS:3.0,3.0a
Platform : WINDOWS
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