Stewart Honsberger wrote in a message to Jack Stein:

 JS> The important thing is to install your operating systems on small 
 JS> partitions.  No need to backup up much of your operating system, as 
 JS> it is already backed up on your install disks.

 SH> That's what I've got setup here. I learned my lesson when I
 SH> had to re-install everything after my single partition
 SH> puked.

 SH> OS/2 resides on a 300MeB partition right now, with apps,
 SH> etc.. on seperate partitions. I've already had to re-install
 SH> OS/2 once, and it was relatively quick and painless.

Are you running WARP 4?  I was wondering how much disk space that would
require?  I guess it depends a lot on what all you install, and where your put 
some of the things.  

 SH> Just re-install the OS, and re-create icons for the neccesary 
 SH> applications.

I never did a re-install of OS/2.  Most I ever did was overwrite my .ini files 
once when I first started using OS/2.  I was playing with some goofy thing
that would rebuild them, and it did, right back to the original stuff on first 
install.  I enjoyed rebuilding things though.  I still don't think it would
talk all that much to rebuild my desktop to where it is now, and, I likely
would "lose" some stuff I never use.  Thats always a bonus I guess.

I do back up all my ini files now, daily.  It would be interesting to see if I 
could actually get them reinstalled just by copying them into a new system. 
I'll wait until I'm forced to do that though, so far, 9 years later, I still
never had to bother with it.  I have them though, just in case:-)

                                              Jack 
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