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Date:	Tue, 24 Jul 2001 11:28:24 PDT
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Weird disk access problem

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In <3B5DAA0B.4C72@peterskye.com>, on 07/24/01
at 10:08 AM, Peter Skye said:

>I have *heard* that if you have these kinds of problems you should delete
>(or rename) the Hidden System file named "WP ROOT. SF" and reboot. I
>seem to remember that it's rebuilt automatically. I'M NOT SURE ON THIS

This is safe to do. The file will be rebuilt. However, Mark's symptoms
do not indicate this problem. I suspect he has corrupted EA's in the part
of the file tree where the hang occurs.

For this he needs Unimaint to validate EA's.

>just rename it and see what happens after a reboot (usual disclaimers
>apply). I have some partitions which _don't_ have a "WP ROOT. SF" file
>in their root directory so it doesn't seem to be critical.

The file is created by the WPS, so if you don't use the WPS to access the
partition the file will never exist.

Steven

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