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Date:	Tue, 18 Dec 2001 10:38:38 PST7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: EA DATA. SF Bloat

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In <3C1E55FF.4770C668@charter.net>, on 12/17/01
at 12:30 PM, Ray Davison said:

>I used NU SPEEDISK for W95 to defrag a fat partition shared by OS/2 and
>W95 and other DOS. In preparation I changed the name of EA DATA. SF to a

FWIW, I've been told "EA DATA .SF" implementation is designed to work best
if left fragmented because the EA data is stored close to the file.
However, once you defrag the disk, the files move so you might as well
defrag "EA DATA. SF" too.

>standard 8.3 name. After defrag I changed it back but missed the space
>before the SF. The next time I booted OS/2 there was no EA file, I

Ooops.

>figured I screwed up something, did not know what, so I used checkdsk to
>create a new one, and all was well.

Ooops/2.

>So now I have the old and new EA files to compare. The new one is 360K,
>the old one is over 12M. Does this imply it has been collecting trash?

No. It implies that that there's a pointer to an EA stored way out there
and that there's lots of empty space in between. It's not supposed to
work this way, but I've seen it happen before. It comes from using both
WinXX and OS/2 to modify files on the same drive.

>Is this a good thing I did?

No or yes. No, if you need the EA's defined for the files on the drive.
Yes, if you don't need the EA's. It depends on what's on the drive.

>Should I do it more often?

See above.

Steven

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