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Date:	Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:01:32 -0700
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
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J R FOX wrote:

>> I learned long ago not to turn Win fixit tools loose on a drive.
>
> Yes, but Win CHKDSK can run at bootup, against something it does not
> understand or does not like. In that event, you'd better be paying
> attention, and be quick on the trigger.

For about a decade I have listened to people talk about hiding
partitions, especially hiding them from Win. All that time I have been
trying to join them into a team. My primary OS/2 is still W4 on FAT16.
It uses FAT16, FAT32, HPFS, JFS and EXT2. Win has never bothered it.
Most of my machines have eCS on HPFS. Win has not bothered them either,
or the HPFS storage partitions. And Win and eCS can now be used to
maintain each other. Heck, I might even eliminate the extra OS/2
partitions some day. That thought is scary.
>
>> Why?
>
> According to the release notes, a JFS data partition is -- for all
> practical purposes -- required for OO 2.x.

Define "for all practical purposes". I have to believe that something
is either required or not. And if it is, why?

On the Dark Side, I don't recall OO 2.x asking
> for JFS . . . but I could be wrong.

I doubt that Win is requiring JFS because it does not seem to be
generally used on Win. I looked at getting Win to use JFS. I found
one guy who said he succeeded. But, he took the scenic route thru Linux
and I didn't care to follow him at this point.
>
>> Do you have any HPFS partitions?
>
> Yup. Several. FAT-32 storage ones as well.

What are you using for maintenance and recovery of FAT32. Like when
OS/2 chkdsk says run scandisk. Until quite recently I went to W98SE for
that. But since I got W2K, W98SE sorta got lost. One time letting W2K
try to recover a FAT32 curred me of that fantasy.
>
> Don't know what to tell you, Ray. I push what I run fairly hard --
> probably not by Steven's terms, but _still_ relative to the "average"
> user. I certainly have my problems, but what you refer to ain't
> among 'em.

So, you do a power-down and every partition comes backs clean, right?

Anyway, you said you were considering JFS. It seems to work OK except
for the crash thing. My storage box doesn't get stressed so it doesn't
need a power down, so it is stable. It runs W4 on FAT16. I has a 500G,
divided 80-200-200, all JFS. It has a different brand 500G as a DFSee
clone backup. I did a single partition 500G just to try. It seemed fine.

Also, I have not tried hard enough to get HPFS and JFS to recover all
partitions at boot, assuming it can. The as-installed HPFS driver
usually recovers the HPFS boot partition but not the others. I
don't/won't boot JFS, so the JFS driver recovers nothing at boot. But
then, the same JFS lines in config.sys report different things on
different machines, so I don't really know what is going on.

Do I understand you have a lot of media files? I suggest you don't try
to push FAT32 or HPFS much past 50G. The magic number may be 64G, I
have played with it but I don't have a real number. That is why I went
to JFS and EXT2.

Ray

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