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- From: Don.Johnson@f107.n207.z1.fidonet.org
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Extended Attributes
- X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Aug 21 1992
- Message-ID: <n09bbt@ofa123.fidonet.org>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 13:59:02
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- TFS>In article <18gi5rINN7as@agate.berkeley.edu>
- TFS>shyguy@ocf.berkeley.edu (David S. Shy) writes:
- TFS>>I was just experimenting with some things on OS/2 today. During the
- proce
- TFS>>of doing so, I think I might have corrupted some extended attributes for
- TFS>>something because the system would freeze after i conduct 1 or 2 commands
- TFS>>just after loading up OS/2. I had to cold boot the whole system and kill
- TFS>>the applications one by one from the task list (had to cold boot after
-
- TFS>>So i ran a chkdsk of the drive containing os2 and discovered that some
- TFS>>of the extended attributes were unlinked (i think that's the term).
- TFS>>I used chkdsk /f (took me a while to figure out how to do it w/o os2
- spitt
- TFS>>an error message at me) and converted all those lost clusters to files,
- wh
- TFS>>i in turn deleted. i did try to take a look at the files, but they were
-
- TFS>>My question is, assuming that these lost clusters of extended attributes
- TFS>>were not linked to anything too important which may prevent the starting
- TFS>>up of OS/2, would OS/2 just rebuild the extended attributes? Or should
- TFS>>I reinstall OS/2 just to make sure that everything that should be thre
- TFS>>is there?
-
- TFS>No, you are OK.
-
- I've got tons of crosslinked extended attributes that aren't cleared up
- with a simple CHKDSK /F. They're still there next time I boot. (I'm
- running AUTOCHECK on a FAT HD.)
-
- * OLX 2.1 TD * OS/2: Not just a job, it's an adventure!
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