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- From: rgammon@pan1 (Robert Gammon)
- Subject: Disk Full (WAS OS/2 2.1?)
- Message-ID: <921218135536@rgam.sc.ti.com>
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- Organization: Texas Instruments Materials and Controls Group
- References: <1992Dec14.092551.9445@actrix.gen.nz> <c01RVB2w165w@tcscs.UUCP>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 18:55:36 GMT
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- In article <c01RVB2w165w@tcscs.UUCP> tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood) writes:
-
- >> Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
- >>
- >> > In article <62740@mimsy.umd.edu> pr@umiacs.umd.edu (Jesus M. Rodriguez) write
- >> > >
- >> > > I am going to post a very stupid question but I have been reading a lot abo
- >> > > OS/2 2.1. Is OS/2 2.1 going to be another upgrade? Will it be shrink wrap
- >> > > I am assuming that IBM hasn't changed their policy of FREE upgrades :-)
- >> >
- >> > It will be a shrinkwrap update from what I hear. It may also involve an
- >> > upgrade charge from WinOS/2 3.0 to WinOS/2 3.1 - at Microsoft's insistence.
- >> >
- >> > IBM can't give stuff away forever. They have been putting a lot into OS/2
- >> > development and as a happy - and much impressed - OS/2 user I don't mind
- >> > putting something back in to ensure a top-class effort in the future.
- >> >
- >> I agree to a point. The problem is that even after the wide beta testing that
- >> IBM did with OS/2 to get it to 2.0, 2.0 left a lot of bugs to work around. In
- >> some aspects I feel as if I got a late release beta version with 2.0 (I said in
- >> SOME aspects). For the most part I am very happy with OS/2. There are times
- >> however when I'm ready to chunk it until it gets more stable. Some of the
- >> biggest problems is harddrive space. OS/2 runs in its own partition of 42
- >> megs. I have maybe 1.5 megs of fonts on C as well. Yet even with this I have
- >> to be EXTRA cautious that my Swapper file doesnt grow too large. I had to
- >> totally reinstall my entire system and reformat my hard drive (when I had it
- >> all on one partition so I lost everthing!) because swapper ran out of space
- >> and the whole system came down hard. I can't print more than a few pages of
- >> W4W because I dont have the room on the hard drive for it. I can't open a
- >> Windows session and a DOS session without running down to 1.8 megs on the
- >> swap drive (normally 4196k swapper.dat, 6460k free on drive). And if I print
- >> and then swapper grows again, the system dies.
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-
- I was present in an office this week when the user got the drive full, no swap
- space available message. It did NOT kill the system, we did NOT have to
- re-boot, we did NOT have to re-install, we did NOT have to re-format. We
- switched to an open window, deleted/saved off some old files, and continued
- working. Perhaps you should relocate SWAPPER.DAT to another partition that
- has more room. Also, relocate the spooler to another partition with more free
- disk space. The problems you have are solvable, and don't necessarily involve
- spending money.
-
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- Regards,
- Robert Gammon
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