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Date:	Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:43:04 -0700
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
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J R FOX wrote:
>
> This is fine, until the overly aggressive Win CHKDSK decides it needs
> to "fix" your HPFS partition(s).

I learned long ago not to turn Win fixit tools loose on a drive. I have
used Norton Disk Doctor since probably early 90s. I just don't run it
on HPFS. Actually W2Ks fixit is no good on FAT32 either. It left me
with 6000 files named 0001-6000.
>
> I'm wondering how many others replicate your mileage with JFS . . .
> because I'm still thinking of trying it, but only thinking about it.
> OO 2.x for our platform seems to require it, as a practical matter.
> That's the one place where I can envision a clear need.

Why? I only went to JFS to get partitions larger than HPFS could handle
for storage. Actual working programs don't need near that much space.
EXT2 is an attempt to get a large partition that both OS/2 and Win can
share.

> HPFS has not been fragile here. Can't recall a situation where it
> has failed, absent some much more serious and widespread issue
> involving all or most of the HDD.
>
Do you have any HPFS partitions? Power down a few times. I often loose
storage partitions and it has sometimes refused to boot afterwards. I
had to run the other installation to fix the one that was running at crash.

Ray

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