04 Jul 15 23:11, you wrote to Sean Dennis:

 SD>> I'd recommend using JFS for any drive larger than 64GB...which is
 SD>> HPFS' limit.

 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).

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

 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.

i had thought to do something like that at one time but needed the space
for operations... now i use rsync to backup everything to another system on
the network... if i shut down the bbs nodes and a couple of other tasks,
the process takes less than 10 minutes... if i leave everything up and
running, it may take up to or over an hour due to the files being accessed
and updated during normal processing... i'm glad i finally took a look at
rsync and finally have another machine with enough storage space to be able
to back up to...

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