[WinMac] Re: Invisibles in Mac Volume - Bad setup

Daniel L. Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Wed, 09 Feb 2000 08:13:37 -0500

        Oops!

        I'll wager it's on your C: drive.

        You originally installed MS/DOS on that partition, then installed NT, then
converted it to NTFS, and then shared the entire drive as a MacFile share.

        First off, sharing the root level of ANY drive for MacFile service is BAD:
All sorts of flaky things can happen. You need to remove the MacFile share,
put all of the folders you want to share to the Macs into a single folder,
and then share it with the old name so the Macs can still map correctly,
i.e. no file links will break.

        Second off, when you convert a partition from FAT to NTFS you can ONLY get
512 byte clusters... Better keep Diskeeper running on a pretty aggressive
schedule to keep the MFT Zone clear, since the file records in NTFS are
1024 bytes long. With the 512 byte cluster size the file records can become
*badly* fragmented *quickly*, killing performance.

        Cheers!
        Dan

At 06:31 AM 2/9/00 -0600, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>In one of two Mac Volumes on an NT with SFM running there are two extra
invisible files in addition to the usual; I suspect they are junk, but I
wonder what they are before I delete them:
>
>IO.SYS
>MSDOS.SYS
>
>Any reason why these might be in there? What are they?
>
>jw
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>Jeff Wechter Azimuth Computing Consultants
><jeff@azimuthco.com> 612-237-6906
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