From: ccurley@wyoming.com (Charles Curley) Subject: Re: EA DATA. SF ?? 22 Sep 1997 16:23:52 -0700 Message-ID: <3.0.2.32.19970922165714.0081bb10.cygnus.gnu-win32@mailhost.wyoming.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Alex Cc: "William M. Mullins" , gnu-win32@cygnus.com At 11:39 PM 9/21/97 -0700, Alex wrote: > > >On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, William M. Mullins wrote: > >> Sir: >> >> I am running NT4SP3 and I now have a 29MB "EA DATA. SF" file on my 1.6GB >> FAT partition that has only 358MB of data on it. It has grown to this >> size over the course of only 3 days (with a lot of "make all"'s and >> "make clean"'s). I suggest a problem my be present in cleaning up these >> files on the system. > >Since you're using NT and an obsolete FAT partition, which doesn't >suppport extended attributes, I'm guessing NT uses this file to store the >extended attributes for files on a FAT partition. Cygnus's tools do use >these extended attributes a fair deal, as do other programs I'm sure, so >this file is probably worth keeping. It is a nice guess, but I am not sure it is correct. I just checked my system (NT 4.0, SP1, W95 OSR0), with no ntfs partitions, and did not find a file of that name. -- C^2 Looking for fine software and/or web pages? http://web.idirect.com/~ccurley - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".