Next I want to reserve some space which won't be taken up by the Econet partitioning. There are various ways to do this. This simplest is to make a big file on the newly initialised disc. Unfortunately, on the BBC Model B OS we don't have the *CREATE command, so instead we can use BASIC file handling to do it.

This method actually extends the file to the required length, instead of just creating a catalogue entry with the length stored, so it takes quite a bit of time.

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