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- From: jack@sdf.lonestar.org (Jack Hudler)
- Subject: Re: Another HPFS question
- Message-ID: <BzAz3H.5My@sdf.lonestar.org>
- Organization: Best lil' ol' Pubnix in Texas
- References: <1992Dec8.230307.27387@inel.gov> <Gary.Woodman.893.724047037@anu.edu.au> <1992Dec11.154229.28083@inel.gov>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 13:35:40 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec11.154229.28083@inel.gov> jar@inel.gov (Jeffry A Rich) writes:
- >In article <Gary.Woodman.893.724047037@anu.edu.au>, Gary.Woodman@anu.edu.au (Gary Woodman) writes:
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- >
- >OK, good enuf. Now, what is/are the advantages to using HPFS over FAT...
- >assuming a drive partition of 80 Mb? I understand that by using HPFS, you
- >have to dedicate 512Kb of ram to it. With only 8Mb of total ram, this
- >will hurt! Would long file names justify this loss?
- >
- That 8 meg you talk of is used up when you boot os/2. You have a virtual
- machine now, you don't really need to worrying about where every little
- byte gets used.
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- IMHO HPFS is a must. FAT is dead. And if I were you I'd make the whole drive
- HPFS get rid of the partitions you don't need to have them.
- Unless you require a DOS BOOT partition, but, just cut the string and go OS/2.
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