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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Defragment EA DATA. SF
- Keywords: OS/2
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.210302.9365@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 21:03:02 GMT
- References: <1992Aug19.162749.5526@digi.lonestar.org>
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- In article <1992Aug19.162749.5526@digi.lonestar.org> lbriskin@digi.lonestar.org (Leonid Briskin) writes:
- >Hi netters !
- >I have 386 system with Dual Boot OS/2 and MS DOS. Last week I found
- >that my EA DATA. SF file has more than 300 pieces. To defragment this file
- >I used procedure from "Inside OS/2" "
- > Boot OS/2
- > ATTRIB -H EA?DATA.?SF
- > Boot MS DOS
- > Using Norton Speed Disk defragment file
- > Boot OS/2
- > ATTRIB +H EA?DATA.?SF
- >
- >After all of this I find that my file was still fragmented.
-
- The EA files have the system (S) bit set as well as the hidden (H)
- bit. Try running attrib with the "-H -S" parameters to clear both
- bits, and then with the "+H +S" parameters to turn them on again. I'd
- recommend doing this from DOS, though, since the files are open and
- active while OS/2 is running.
-
- >Using MS DOS ATTRIB gave me error message " System re-installation error"
- >or somethink like this ( I don't remember exact message ).
-
- Odd. I recommend using the gnu chmod program. I've used it for many
- things under DOS. I don't know about EA data files, though, since my
- hard drives are HPFS formatted, and I don't care much about floppy
- fragmentation (re-format and xcopy works fine to defragment a floppy!)
-
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