Removing EA's (extended attributes)This is a discussion on Removing EA's (extended attributes) within the OS2 forums, part of the Other OS category; On Sat, 9 Aug 2008 00:08:15 UTC, "PaulRS" wrote: > Is there a correct way of removing Extened Attributes? > The file 'EA DATA. SF' itself is nothing than a ... | ||||||||
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08-22-2008, 05:54 PM
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 Re: Removing EA's (extended attributes) On Sat, 9 Aug 2008 00:08:15 UTC, "PaulRS" wrote: > Is there a correct way of removing Extened Attributes? > The file 'EA DATA. SF' itself is nothing than a placeholder for filesystems like FAT to reserve blocks used by EAs. EAs are used intensively by the WPS in conjuction with ehe os2*.ini. Rubbing them up has higly influences against the desktop and its objects. Some OS/2 programs uses EAs too to store side information to to the data they manage. Anyway there is nothing that uses the file 'ea data. sf' on its own except the filesystem itself. But the WPS and some OS/2 programs using os2*.ini to hold links into the secors occupied by the 'ea data. sf' to access the specific EA. So it may give strange behavior of the WPS or some application when 'ea data. sf' gets destroyed behind the users of the EAs. MDOS/WINOS2 knows nothing about EAs and theyr existence! So it is mstenly absolitely riskless to rmove the whole file from the root directory of a drive when no app that uses EAs of theyr own is active. The WPS will recreate the file whenever it tries to write them with default valuses. -- Tschau/Bye Herbert Visit http://www.ecomstation.de the home of german eComStation eComStation 1.2R Deutsch ist da!  |
