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- From: wjb5106@zeus.tamu.edu (Walter Barnett)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Can I delete 400K EA... file from drive D: (all DOS programs)?
- Message-ID: <28AUG199212562268@zeus.tamu.edu>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 17:56:00 GMT
- Article-I.D.: zeus.28AUG199212562268
- References: <stanton.470.0@haas.berkeley.edu>
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- In article <stanton.470.0@haas.berkeley.edu>, stanton@haas.berkeley.edu (Richard Stanton) writes...
- >My drive D: contains only DOS programs. However, I see there is a 400K EA...
- >file in the root directory. This seems rather large, since none of the files
- >should need any extended attributes.
- >
- >Can I just delete the file? If there might be problems with doing this, is
- >there another way to shrink it? (By the way, CHKDSK /F didn't change
- >anything)
- >
-
- This is not a good idea. OS/2 will refuse to read a drive from which
- the EA file has been removed. You could get away with it by running
- chkdsk on the drive just after deleting the EA file. Chkdsk will report
- a bunch of errors (missing EAs) and create smaller EA file. Don't blame
- me if something goes wrong...
-
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