Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/1998/03/22/14:01:32
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>[...]
>> I think that it should be a mount option rather than an environment setting,
>> actually. How about these options:
>>
>> mount
>> -b "binary" mount
>> -p posix semantics (case sensitive)
>> -A do not use extended attributes
>> -r "r"emovable device (floppy, zip drive)
>> -s create mount table in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
>
>I'm starting to think that perhaps use of the extended attributes
>should be off by default. The files that get created are huge and
>there isn't any way that I know of to trim them down to a minimum
>size. :-(
Is there a way to find the size of these files on a non-FAT partition?
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