In a message dated 07-05-15, mark lewis said to Holger Granholm:

Hi Mark,

 HG> No thanks, I still want to have some DOS programs available and for
 HG> that purpose also will limit partition size to 2Gb (at least some).

ml> from what i've read, you can still run 2gbfix.com in your DOS tasks
ml> and it will handle that just fine for the most part... i have one
ml> disk divided into 2gig partitions and the other is in 10gig
ml> partitions... the DOS side of the fence doesn't care and accesses
ml> all equally well... i don't have JFS in operation, though... only
ml> HPFS...

So far all, even old ones, DOS programs run just fine on less than 2Gb
partitions and I haven't had the need for larger oartitions.

 HG> Actually I do already have a separate DOS (C:) at the beginning of the
 HG> first HD. The second HD is actually a mirror of the main one.

ml> i had thought to do something like that at one time but needed the
ml> space for operations... now i use rsync to backup everything to
ml> another system on the network... if i shut down the bbs nodes and a
ml> couple of other tasks, the process takes less than 10 minutes...

I'm using PCOPY to do the mirroring of the partitions to the second HD.
The PCOPY.EXE is dated 1995 and doesn't present the correct year in its
own log since 2000 but that doesn't bother me. I get the time/date from
the EVENT.LOG if I need them.

I have 15 minutes reserved for the program to do its job but today it
uses only about 3 minutes.

Have a nice day,

Holger

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