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- From: schepers@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (Peter Schepers)
- Subject: Re: What is the recommended size for an OS/2 system-only partition?
- Message-ID: <BzBAAD.114@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <1992Dec14.181811.23621@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec14.233223.8809@msc.cornell.edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 17:37:23 GMT
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- >I'll jump on this since, IMHO, there are right and wrongs ways to partition
- >the system. I've installed some 8 systems under the following "principle".
- >
- >Primary partition 1: 1 MB for Boot manager
- >Primary partition 2: 30 MB FAT (C:) DOS compatibility partition
- >Extended partition 1: 100 MB HPFS (D:) Main OS/2 boot partition and software.
- > All commercial packages easy to restore
- > here. Seldom backed up.
- >Extended partition 2: 200 MB HPFS (E:) Main data/development partition. Gets
- > backups regularly.
- >Extended partition 3: 50 MB HPFS (F:) Test disk for installs of beta OS/2
- >Extended partition 4: 20 MB FAT (G:) Swap partition. Set so swap never
- > competes with user space. If 20 MB is
- > not enough, you need more memory.
-
-
- The thing that suprised me here was that the SWAP partition is FAT, NOT
- HPFS. In my experience, the swap file on a FAT drive is markedly slower
- than on HPFS.
-
- Also, is the DOS compatability partition visible to OS/2 or is it hidden.
-
- Also also, as an aside, Boot Manager allows you to set a extended
- partition bootable, installable and the like, but when I tried to install
- DOS 5.0 in it, it would not boot. I would just get garbage scolling across
- the screen, and the machine would hang. Is this setup supposed to be
- possible? The reason I ask, is your OS/2 partition is setup as an extended,
- and it works. Does this not work for DOS as well?
-
- Peter Schepers.
- University of Waterloo.
-
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