From owner-freebsd-fs Fri Jan 29 17:52:58 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA23557 for freebsd-fs-outgoing; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 17:52:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from orion.ac.hmc.edu (Orion.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA23531 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 17:52:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brooks@one-eyed-alien.net) From: brooks@one-eyed-alien.net Received: from localhost (brdavis@localhost) by orion.ac.hmc.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA27157 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 17:52:48 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: orion.ac.hmc.edu: brdavis owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 17:52:48 -0800 (PST) X-Sender: brdavis@orion.ac.hmc.edu To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FAT and OS/2 extended attribute files Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I've been having trouble with a file in the root of a FAT file system I'm mounting on one of my FreeBSD 2.2.8-STABLE (as of a week ago) machines. When I type ls /winnt I see a file named "EA", but when I do an ls -l /winnt or try to open the file it's not there. I've traced the problem to a file named "EA DATA. SF" which a search of dejanews reports in an OS/2 extended attribute file. While I think I can get rid of it if I use a DOS boot disk and mabey an extra utility to unhide it and delete it, it would be nice if FreeBSD knew about this special case. The place it's actually causing trouble is trying to have amanda backup the drive via GNU tar, which sees the file, but, since it can't open it, fails. Thanks for your time and for making FreeBSD the great OS it is. -- Brooks Davis To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message