From: joska@nvg.ntnu.no   
      
   Djordje Vukovic  wrote:   
      
   > But the problem appared in the first place because, with increasing   
   > partition sizes, it becomes difficult to give a sum of filelengths.   
   > When a folder (or a partition) content is more than 4 GB one would   
   > have to resort to the extravaganza of 48-bit (or 64-bit?) arithmetics.   
   > When doing calculation based on cluster count the problem would   
   > be deferred at least to capacities of several TB.   
      
   You can sum the numbers of full clusters used in one 32 bit integer, and   
   the remainder in another 32 bit integer. Unless you have an awful amount   
   of very small (i.e. smaller than the size of a cluster) files this should   
   work with very large collections of files.   
      
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