Ray Davison wrote:

>Mike O'Connor wrote:
>  
>
>>Ray Davison wrote:
>>
>>>Should InfoZip work on FAT32?  I have a 8G FAT32 that has 2.4G free. 
>>>The log file ends with a bunch of AVI files being added, and then 
>>>nothing, it just exits.  The drive I am running from and writing to is 
>>>20G HPFS with 18G free.
>>>
>>>Ray
>>>      
>>>
>>Hi Ray,
>>Seeing there is AFAIK a *FILE* size limitation on HPFS of 2GB, that's 
>>not surprising - use JFS, if your infozip can create FILES > 2GB, 
>>otherwise use RAR, which can.
>>    
>>
>Thanks Mike.  I probably even knew that, a long time ago, when it 
>didn't matter.  This is probably the first time I ever tried to Zip 
>one of my large drives.  I have always just copied them across the net 
>to a storage box.  I have a 160G HDD on a socket seven machine that 
>mostly just holds stuff I might want some day.  There was no real need 
>to compress.  And there still isn't.  I was just setting some stuff 
>aside to use in building a new primary HDD.  I had space to copy and did.
>
>Regarding JFS and, although you didn't say it, presumably LVM. 
>Someone once said "If you build a better mouse trap the world will 
>beat a path to your door".  In real world marketing that has almost 
>always been nonsense.  Generally, the marketer has to first point out 
>that the potential customer has mice.  And then he must convince him 
>that mice are bad.  Only then can he present his solution, in this 
>case the mouse trap.
>
>OK, I have mice.  I have DOS, Win98SE and W4.  But these mice have 
>been good to me.  They are all friends, they help each other.  I have 
>plugin racks in every machine.  I could completely alternate between 
>those OSs and maybe a couple more.  But I like all my mice in one 
>cage.  If I install an OS on a proprietary partition I assume the next 
>thing I have to do is install it again, so I have a maintenance system 
>that I can use to work on the first one.
>
>If OS/2 ever takes over the desktop, and of coarse provides me what I 
>need/want, I'll run just that, on whatever file system it is using at 
>the time.  But for now, JFS/LVM just don't seem to be a solution for 
>which I have a problem.
>  
>

Hi Ray,

If you create your partitions in conventional sequence, all of the 
former physical partitions, when accessed under LVM-aware systems are 
completely visible once set to "Compatibility Volumes" - i.e. assigned a 
Volume-driveletter.

Any compatibility volumes you create in LVM are completely visible in 
"Legacy OS/2"[non-LVM-aware] &  also in
"DOS-with-HPFS-support", the 
only LVM volumes not visible in these Oses are LVM_volumes [type 0x35].

Everything you can see from Legacy-OS/2 is visible from LVM-enabled 
systems, but you can if necessary "hide" any Volume from that system 
[even if temporarily for some particular purpose] - this doesn't affect 
that "volume's" visibility from an OS/2-DOS boot at all.

You can also have access to two Primary [C:] partitions - BM/Extended 
uses the other two primaries - simultaneously in asn LVM-enabled system, 
one of them will be automatically allocated some-other-driveletter for 
that session.  LVM gives you the added capability of being able to boot 
from a logical drive located in the final one GB [159] of that 160GB 
drive of yours.  Warp4 won't let you do that!

With the hard drive sizes these days, it's simple with LVM to have a 
hundred or more logical partitions on the drive, but with only selected 
ones made active and visible.  That way you can do an installation to 
any drive-letter you like of any OS/2-eCS version, after first possibly 
de-allocating [hiding the volume from OS/2-eCS] the original 
partition/[volume] using that drive-letter, or keep image copies of 
other partitions and so on.

HTH

-- 
Regards,
Mike

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