![]() Note that when using drive numbers like 0 and 1 to mount a diskette image the -fs none flag is automatically assumed in DOSBox-X. When you copy files to it the used disk space will automatically increase. 0 represents drive A: and 1 represents drive B:, but due to the use of drive numbers they cannot be directly accessed from the DOSBox-X integrated DOS. If you for example create a sparse file of 4GB, mount it in FileDisk and format it to NTFS, it will only take up 24MB on disk but look like a normal disk of 4GB. To see how much disk space a file actually uses right click on the file and choose Properties. ![]() ![]() A sparse file is a file where suficiently large blocks of zeros aren't allocated disk space. FileDisk can also use CD/DVD images.įileDisk will use sparse files as disk images if the underlying file system supports it. An example of use for this driver is if you have made plans spending the weekend writing a RAID driver for NT but find you are short of disks. A console application is included that let you dynamically mount and unmount files. Try FileDisk (also comes bundled with WinImage):įileDisk is a virtual disk driver for Windows that uses one or more files to emulate physical disks.
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