Re: [MiNT] C:\MINT directory locked & xa_boot.log

[Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>]

On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 13:43:52 , Jo Even Skarstein <joska@online.no> wrote:
> > From: Helmut Karlowski [helmut.karlowski@ish.de]
> > Sent: 2013-01-25 23:32:29 CET
> > To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi
> > Subject: Re: [MiNT] C:\MINT directory locked & xa_boot.log
> >
> > > BTW, would it be possible to disable the creation of xa_boot.log? It is
> > > useless for normal users, and may slow down the boot process on real
> > > hardware. Of course, one could manually enable it if he has trouble.
> >
> > Unnoticeable.
>
> I beg to differ. Atleast on my Milan it's a very noticable difference between a writeable and write-protected xa_boot.log. But noticable and significant is not the same :)
>
> But I support the idea to make xa_boot.log optional. It's mostly useless, and if you don't know the writeprotect-trick it will grow indefinitely.
>
> Jo Even
>
>

Mine was 1.8M so I have deleted it again.

How about checking the filesize at boot and deleting if it is larger
than say 1M ?

Regards,

Peter