kushner@ux3.lbl.gov (Gary Kushner) (11/28/89)
I did a chkdsk on one of my volumes and discovered that 256k had been allocated to Extended attributes. Sure enough EA DATA.SF was 256k. On my other volumes the size of EAs range from 2k to 50k. I was wondering if anyone had any idea what could be in all those EAs? I use 100% FAT. I only use PMSHELL very rarely, and I've only used it once to add EAs. When I dump the EAs most of them don't seem to make any sense. Lot's of repeating binary data, and random parts from other programs. The format of the EAs seems like a resonable data format: at the begining of a cluster the word "EA" and then the filename that the EA is attached to, but as I said the data looks like garbage. I think I've found a bug! But, I'm not sure. Any ideas? -Gary