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Info(V1.3, 2.x, 3.x in C:)
NAME
Info - report information about mounted file
system(s).
SYNOPSIS
Info NAME DATES
DESCRIPTION
This command displays important and useful
information about each disk unit. INFO displays what disk
volumes are in use and the amount of strorage they have.
INFO also will display the name of all the disks
residing in any physical disk drive. This is helpful if
you in helping you remember what volumes are mounted
where. You also get a list of available volumes is also
listed (those mounted and unmounted).
The 3 1/2 inch disk has 880k of space available to
them. After you format it under OFS (Old File System) you
only have 837k left. If you use FFS (Fast File System)
you have a full 879k to use. If you are fortunate enough
to have a high density drive, then you can use 1759k of
disk space.
The entire disk format is stored in sectors. There
are 1758 usable sectors on the Amiga disk. OFS's divide
each sector into 488 bytes whereas FFS has a full 512
bytes per sector. High Density disks use 3518 bytes per
sector. INFO will report the number of sectors already
used on the disk and how many are available for use. RAM:
is dynamic. That means, it will always be reported as
100% full (even if it is empty) and will expand as needed
until it is full.
INFO will also report if there are any 'soft' errors
on your disk. So, what is a soft error? Well, it is a
temporary error. For example, an error reading
information from a disk. If the system cannot read the
information off the disk, it will retry a couple times.
If all reads fail then you have a hard error. If one of
your reads is successful then the original read that
failed is flagged as a soft error.
It also reports whether or not disk disk is write
protected. If it is listed as 'Read Only' then your write
protection tab is set. If it is listed as 'Read/Write'
then it can be written to as well as read. The RAM: disk
cannot be protected from reading or writing, but the
files you put in there can be protected from deletion
with the use of the PROTECT command.
KEYWORDS
NAME
This keyword lets you get the information of one
particular device without getting all the info for
everything else.
EXAMPLES
1. To show the information regarding the disk volumes
known to the filing system:
INFO
2. To print out the information regarding the disk
volumes known to the filing system:
INFO > PRT:
3. To show only the information pertaining to df1:
INFO df1: