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From: cohill@vtserf.cc.vt.edu (Andrew M. Cohill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Unusually large System file
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Date: 23 Jan 91 21:35:23 GMT
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A co-worker has a strange problem with her Mac IIcx; her System file has
expanded to over 2 megs, making it difficult to do any work on her 4 meg
total memory system.  This problem persisted even after we took off
every init and unnecessary cdev we could, and even after we trashed the
System file and installed a new one (6.0.7).  

The problem became even more mysterious when we made a copy of the 6.0.7
System disk and booted off that;  the System file was still a
whopping 1746k.  When we booted off the same disk on my IIcx, the System
file was a much more modest 448k.  Both machines have an Ethernet card
and a video board, and internal 40 meg hard drives.  

Any ideas would be most helpful.