Full 1.7 Install -> "Insufficient disk space to repair security descriptor at index $SII for file 9"
Dave Korn
dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com
Mon Jul 6 03:50:00 GMT 2009
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
More information about the Cygwin
mailing list