EA DATA. SF ??

EA DATA. SF ??

[Michael Hirmke]

Hi *,

don't know, when it started, but whenever I copy a file to a floppy
disk, cp (or whoever) creates a file named "EA DATA. SF" on the floppy.
Afterwards it also copies the desired file to the floppy.

The file cannot be deleted, no matter what I try.

Does anyone know, why this file is created ?
It is not a serious problem, but a bit annoying.

Thx and bye.
Michael.
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Re: EA DATA. SF!!!!

[William M. Mullins]

Sir:

As you know, this was a problem from long ago that has regained
attention.  Before this problem pushed me over to NTFS, I was in the
habit of booting with DOS and deleteing the files.  There seemed to be
no ill effects.

I still have problems on my zip-disks, but I move these around to Win95
systems enough that the EA DATA. SF files do not become too large before
being deleted.

I did manage to get some >150MB EA DATA. SF files during some rapid-fire
building and testing work.  That does seem excessive considering the
actual files on the disk were only 300MB total.  How many attributes are
stored anyway?


W. M. Mullins



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Re: EA DATA. SF!!!!

[Daniel P. Kionka]

> Is there some way to turn of the use of EA DATA. SF on a NT FAT?
> 
> I don't want it and I can't change to NTFS.

Yeah, this is causing me problems, too.  I am the release manager,
but every floppy I create has the EA DATA. SF file, too, and I am
supposed to make the official release disks.  I can't remove it
unless I use another PC, but then the date/time info is corrupt,
and I can no longer double-click to open .txt files.
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RE: EA DATA. SF ??

[Sergey Okhapkin]

Earnie Boyd wrote:
> I just found mine.  This is on a WinNT 3.51.  It is 144 meg.
> 
> Sergey,
> 
> Help!!!! We're being driven to not use your cygwin.dll because of this.
> 

1. Chkdsk /f this drive.
2. Do not use fat at all :-)
3. Boot from dos diskette and remove the file - you will lost all the emulated unix attributes.

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RE: EA DATA. SF ??

[Sergey Okhapkin]

Earnie Boyd wrote:
> >> I am running NT4SP3 and I now have a 29MB "EA DATA. SF" file on my 
> In what directory does EA DATA. SF get created.  I haven't been able to 
> find it.

In the root directory of fat partition, if you have writed something to that partition with cygwin programs.

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Re: EA DATA. SF ??

[Charles Curley]

At 11:39 PM 9/21/97 -0700, Alex wrote:
>
>
>On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, William M. Mullins wrote:
>
>> Sir:
>> 
>> I am running NT4SP3 and I now have a 29MB "EA DATA. SF" file on my 1.6GB
>> FAT partition that has only 358MB of data on it.  It has grown to this
>> size over the course of only 3 days (with a lot of "make all"'s and
>> "make clean"'s).  I suggest a problem my be present in cleaning up these
>> files on the system.
>
>Since you're using NT and an obsolete FAT partition, which doesn't
>suppport extended attributes, I'm guessing NT uses this file to store the
>extended attributes for files on a FAT partition.  Cygnus's tools do use
>these extended attributes a fair deal, as do other programs I'm sure, so
>this file is probably worth keeping.

It is a nice guess, but I am not sure it is correct. I just checked my
system (NT 4.0, SP1, W95 OSR0), with no ntfs partitions, and did not find a
file of that name.

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Re: EA DATA. SF ??

[Earnie Boyd]

>Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:24:17 -0400
>From: "William M. Mullins" <mullinwm@picard.ml.wpafb.af.mil>
>To: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: EA DATA. SF ??
>
>Sir:
>
>The file appears in the root directories of each FAT partition ie.
>"C:/EA DATA. SF" "D:/EA DATA. SF"  et al. and has the attributes
>"RHSA".  The file does not appear immediatly, but seems to be created
>during file transfer operations, esp. from one partition to another.
>
>Why I would need 5MB of file attributes on a half-full 100MB Zip disk I
>cannot understand!
>
>
>W. M. Mullins
>
>
>
>
>


I just found mine.  This is on a WinNT 3.51.  It is 144 meg.

Sergey,

Help!!!! We're being driven to not use your cygwin.dll because of this.

Thanks

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Re: EA DATA. SF ??

[Earnie Boyd]

>Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 23:39:29 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net>
>To: "William M. Mullins" <mullinwm@picard.ml.wpafb.af.mil>
>cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com
>Subject: Re: EA DATA. SF ??
>
>
>
>On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, William M. Mullins wrote:
>
>> Sir:
>> 
>> I am running NT4SP3 and I now have a 29MB "EA DATA. SF" file on my 
1.6GB
>> FAT partition that has only 358MB of data on it.  It has grown to 
this
>> size over the course of only 3 days (with a lot of "make all"'s and
>> "make clean"'s).  I suggest a problem my be present in cleaning up 
these
>> files on the system.
>
>Since you're using NT and an obsolete FAT partition, which doesn't
>suppport extended attributes, I'm guessing NT uses this file to store 
the
>extended attributes for files on a FAT partition.  Cygnus's tools do 
use
>these extended attributes a fair deal, as do other programs I'm sure, 
so
>this file is probably worth keeping.
>
>- alex
>
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In what directory does EA DATA. SF get created.  I haven't been able to 
find it.

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Re: EA DATA. SF ??

[Alex]

On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, William M. Mullins wrote:

> Sir:
> 
> I am running NT4SP3 and I now have a 29MB "EA DATA. SF" file on my 1.6GB
> FAT partition that has only 358MB of data on it.  It has grown to this
> size over the course of only 3 days (with a lot of "make all"'s and
> "make clean"'s).  I suggest a problem my be present in cleaning up these
> files on the system.

Since you're using NT and an obsolete FAT partition, which doesn't
suppport extended attributes, I'm guessing NT uses this file to store the
extended attributes for files on a FAT partition.  Cygnus's tools do use
these extended attributes a fair deal, as do other programs I'm sure, so
this file is probably worth keeping.

- alex


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Re: EA DATA. SF ??

[William M. Mullins]

Sir:

I am running NT4SP3 and I now have a 29MB "EA DATA. SF" file on my 1.6GB
FAT partition that has only 358MB of data on it.  It has grown to this
size over the course of only 3 days (with a lot of "make all"'s and
"make clean"'s).  I suggest a problem my be present in cleaning up these
files on the system.


W. M. Mullins



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Re: EA DATA. SF ??

[Henrik Geleff]

 Chances is that you are using OS/2, the file is used by OS/2 to keep track
of extended attributes (i.e. EA ....); unfortunately I am not aware of any
way to make OS/2 not make it.

Regards
Henrik Geleff

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From: Michael Hirmke <mh@mike.franken.de>
To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com <gnu-win32@cygnus.com>
Date: 13 September 1997 07:19
Subject: EA DATA. SF ??



>Hi *,
>
>don't know, when it started, but whenever I copy a file to a floppy
>disk, cp (or whoever) creates a file named "EA DATA. SF" on the floppy.
>Afterwards it also copies the desired file to the floppy.
>
>The file cannot be deleted, no matter what I try.
>
>Does anyone know, why this file is created ?
>It is not a serious problem, but a bit annoying.
>
>Thx and bye.
>Michael.
>--
>Michael Hirmke           | Telefon +49 (911) 557999
>Georg-Strobel-Strasse 81 | FAX     +49 (911) 557664
>90489 Nuernberg          | E-Mail  mh@mike.franken.de
>                         | WWW     http://minimike.franken.de/
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Re: EA DATA. SF ??

[Michael Hirmke]

Hi Sergey,

[...]
> You took the cygwin.dll from my web page? File EA DATA. SF used by NT on

Yes I'm using one of your dlls.

> fat partitions to store file's extended attributes (the same way like in
> OS/2). EAs used by cygwin.dll to store file's unix attributes (rwxrwxrwx).

Uh, I see - but only with your dll ?

Bye.
Michael.
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RE: EA DATA. SF ??

[Sergey Okhapkin]

Michael Hirmke wrote:
> don't know, when it started, but whenever I copy a file to a floppy
> disk, cp (or whoever) creates a file named "EA DATA. SF" on the floppy.
> Afterwards it also copies the desired file to the floppy.
>
> The file cannot be deleted, no matter what I try.
>
> Does anyone know, why this file is created ?

You took the cygwin.dll from my web page? File EA DATA. SF used by NT on 
fat partitions to store file's extended attributes (the same way like in 
OS/2). EAs used by cygwin.dll to store file's unix attributes (rwxrwxrwx).

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