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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: extended attributes
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.012842.16299@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <18gi5rINN7as@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 01:28:42 GMT
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- In article <18gi5rINN7as@agate.berkeley.edu> shyguy@ocf.berkeley.edu (David S. Shy) writes:
- >I was just experimenting with some things on OS/2 today. During the process
- >of doing so, I think I might have corrupted some extended attributes for
- >something because the system would freeze after i conduct 1 or 2 commands
- >just after loading up OS/2. I had to cold boot the whole system and kill
- >the applications one by one from the task list (had to cold boot after
- >each kill because the system would just freeze again) After couple boots,
- >i was able to kill all the applications make the desktop look like it should.
- >So i ran a chkdsk of the drive containing os2 and discovered that some
- >of the extended attributes were unlinked (i think that's the term).
- >I used chkdsk /f (took me a while to figure out how to do it w/o os2 spitting
- >an error message at me) and converted all those lost clusters to files, which
- >i in turn deleted. i did try to take a look at the files, but they were
- >not text files, so i didn't discover anything too informative.
- >My question is, assuming that these lost clusters of extended attributes
- >were not linked to anything too important which may prevent the starting
- >up of OS/2, would OS/2 just rebuild the extended attributes? Or should
- >I reinstall OS/2 just to make sure that everything that should be thre
- >is there?
- >I am using the FAT setup (convenience purposes).
-
- No, you are OK.
-
- Enable autochecking for ALL your hard drive volumes, FAT or HPFS.
- To do so, list all FAT volumes in the DISKCACHE line in your OS/2
- CONFIG.SYS next to the AC parameter, e.g.
-
- DISKCACHE=256,LW,AC:CD
-
- and for HPFS in the IFS line next to the /AUTOCHECK parameter. See
- your online Command Reference for details.
-
- This will prevent further mishaps.
-
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