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- Subject: Re: EA DATA. SF file size
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.210634.143339@zeus.calpoly.edu>
- From: jemenake@zeus.calpoly.edu (Joe Emenaker)
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 21:06:34 GMT
- References: <1992Aug25.192458.21679@ni.umd.edu>
- Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
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- In article <1992Aug25.192458.21679@ni.umd.edu> dan@ni.umd.edu (Dan Burns) writes:
- >
- >I have a PS/2 Model 80 with a 330 meg hard disk the with over 250 megs of
- >disk space used (mostly old dos stuff), that I have OS/2 installed on using
- >a FAT system and dual-boot. My EA_DATA._SF is over 11 Meg in size right now
- >(11059200 byte). Is this normal? At home I have a 35 meg HPFS system and
- >140 Meg FAT system (on the same disk), and the file is just over 110K.
- >
- >Is something wrong here? I am using kernal revision 6.311 dated 92/05/14.
-
- Well, my understanding is that the EA_DATA file has the extended attributes
- for the FILES on your hard disk, so the size should be more proportional to
- the NUMBER of files on your HD rather than their total size. On my machine,
- I've got about 2000 files and my EA_DATA is a little over a meg. That comes
- to about 500 bytes per file. Sounds reasonable since I heard that the
- EA_DATA is used to store the icons from your OS/2 and Windows EXEs.
-
- My advice would be to first check the number of files on each hard disk and
- see if the proportions are a bit more similar than they are when you
- compare EA-DATA size with actual total file size.
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