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Date:	Tue, 2 Sep 2008 20:47:51 -0700
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: OS/2 & W2K storage on Ext2

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J R FOX wrote:
> --- On Tue, 9/2/08, Ray Davison wrote:
>
>> For several years I have used FAT32 for sharing data files between
>> OS/2 and Win. But FAT32 is size limited and fragile.
>
> I guess we are fated to forever be on opposite sides of most issues.
> I've never lost a FAT32 partition

I recently had problems with a FAT32 after a crash. It was about 20G of
mostly JPGs. OS/2 chkdsk said run scandisk. I had done that
successfully with W98SE, but this was W2K. I turned the W2K fixit
utility loose on it. It gave me 6000 files named 1-6000. Not very useful.

>JFS is something I'm still looking for good enough reasons to get into.

Partition size. 50G is a practical limit for FAT32 or HPFS. Don't you
find that a bit confining?
>
> So, there IS an EXT2 IFS for eCS ? Had not heard of one before.

Seems to work well. Requires more than an IFS. I don't have a
maintenance tool for it yet.

Ray

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