Determining the Amount of Disk Space with Stacker (80575)

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

To Run Scheck

1. Exit Windows (running an MS-DOS shell does not work).
2. At an MS-DOS command line, type

   scheck

3. 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
                      -------------------     ------------------
      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.

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