Hi Folks,

A short while ago there was some discussion regarding the difficulty OS/2 has
in seeing more than 1 primary partition on a drive. While looking for some
info relating to accessing FAT32 drives from OS/2 I discovered an archive
called OS2FAT32.ZIP dated 31-01-98 that contains PARTFILT.FLT dated 21-01-98. 
The docs for PARTFLT indicates that it can be used to re-order the drive
letter assignments for partitions to whatever the users wishes, and it also
contains the following interesting section -
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What is PARTFILT?
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PARTFILT.flt is a filter device driver for OS/2 that makes it possible to
load an IFS for linux partitions. (Without this filter you must patch the
partition table. On many systems doing so may cause LILO to fail.)

HK: The filter now is NOT specific for Linux.

In addition this driver is capable to control in what order drive letters
are assigned to partitions on fixed disks. It will also allow you to access
hidden primary partitions under OS/2.
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The goal of this filter is to allow you to use ext2-os2.ifs without breaking
anything else... :-)

NOTE: You need ext2-os2.ifs to access the files on a linux (ext2) partition.
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The line I have underlined with *************************** suggests that it
can be used to allow Lynda to see the partitions she normally may not (under
OS/2). I have not tried any of the files in the above archive.

Cheers............pk.


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