Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Stephen M. Kenton wrote: >> While I was there I decided to try Cygwin 1.7 and I did a new install >> of everything. Shortly after it finished installing I got a strange >> return from a "find" command so I scheduled a scan disk and rebooted >> so it could run. There were 20GB free on disk, but I got a couple of >> messages (paraphrased) about "Insufficient disk space to repair >> security descriptor at index $SII for file 9" and index "$SDH for file9".
Was the partition created and/or formatted from the Linux side, using ntfstools for example, before windows was installed to it? Or did you use the format option in the windows installer? > Sounds to me like it could be a hardware or file system issue which > coincidentally you see surface after you install and run Cygwin. Cygwin > apps work in user space and can't crash Windows unless they happen to > tickle an O/S bug or other external instability. Cygwin doesn't use raw block I/O to write corrupted disk block structures to your HD, that's for sure. But one thing it does do that's a bit unusual is to create a hell of a lot of ACLs, compared to a standard windows installation where most stuff doesn't have a custom ACL and just inherits from the directory tree. I wonder if for some reason this drive got formatted in a funny way that didn't leave enough room for entries in the security descriptor database special files? cheers, DaveK -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple