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Date:	Sun, 21 Apr 2002 10:17:15 PST7
From:	"Dallas E. Legan" <dallasii@kincyb.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-general@scoug.com
To:	scoug-general@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-General: Re: Partition Magic and Related questions

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> Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 18:56:56 PST7
> From: "Virginia R. Hetrick"
> To: scoug-general@scoug.com
> Subject: SCOUG-General: Partition Magic and related questions
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Hi, gang -
>
> Has anybody out there used Partition Magic 7 to create a computer with
> the following:
>
> 1. Primary partitions:
> OS/2 Warp 4
> Win2KPro
> DOS 7 (only uses its own partition with no access to other
> partitions or
> to the outside world by dialup or network except by
> floppy drive)
> Fat-32 directory (to be accessible only from Win2KPro)
> 2. Extended partition
> Linux (version TBD, see below)

I'm confused.
Are you intending:
OS/2 Warp 4 -> Primary Partition -> HPFS
Win2KPro -> Primary Partition -> Fat-32
DOS 7 -> Primary Partition -> Fat-something
Linux -> Extended Partition -> TBD

or

OS/2 Warp 4 -> Primary Partition -> HPFS
Win2KPro -> Primary Partition -> something
DOS 7 -> Primary Partition -> Fat-something
nothing -> Primary Partition -> Fat-32
Linux -> Extended Partition -> TBD
(presuming more than one disk?,
last I heard you could only have 4 primary partitions or
3 primaries and 1 extended.)

??????

>
> Then, looking at the filesystems available for various Linux(es) (about
> which I haven't been able to find out much, but I could be looking in
> all the wrong places), are any of these file systems readable from the

At http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html is a comprehensive
list of Linux 'HOW-TO's, one of which is a file-system HOW-TO.

What I can contribute to this:
1) From various places you can get ext-2 Linux file-system
driver and utilities for OS/2. It's worked fine for me.
According to various sources I've heard this should be able
to interact with the newer ext-3 journaling file system,
but not in journaling mode.
I haven't heard anything about OS/2 support for
Reiser or XFS journaling file systems.
Don't know what the status of non-server/eCs versions of OS/2 support
for JFS, but it doesn't seem to be catching on in the Linux world.
2) Most Linux kernels should be able to access the M$
FAT filesystems, especially the older ones.
3) You will probably have to build a special kernel to
access HPFS from Linux, but it can be done.

> other operating systems if I were to make the proposed Fat-32 directory
> into one of the Linux file systems?
>
> Thanks for whatever light any of you can shed.
>
> virginia
>
>
>
>

Regards,
Dallas E. Legan II / leganii@surfree.com / dallasii@kincyb.com

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