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- From: caliaro@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (Aurelio Caliaro)
- Subject: Re: FAT vs. HPFS ...
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 08:04:26 GMT
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- Binod Taterway (lubkt@synergy.CC.Lehigh.EDU) wrote:
-
- : Fellow OS/2 users,
-
- : Do I need
- : to use HPFS on the floppy? I am not sure how.
-
- It is not possible to use HPFS on a floppy. That means: There is a tricky way
- to do that, but it is senseless! The only advantages are long file names, but
- using an archiver you can still have those.
-
- : I also loaded FDISKPM to
- : see what kind of partition is the C drive. It is FAT. Why is FAT?
- : have a PS/ValuePoint preinstalled OS/2 2.0. I didn't do anything to
- : make it FAT. Is there anyway I can use HPFS?
-
- You didn't do anything to make it FAT: That is it! You should have told them
- that you want HPFS... now the only thing you can do is reinstall OS/2 on your
- HD by reformatting that partition. If you did nothing unusual with your OS/2
- just backup all directories except /OS2 to Disk (use a compress program, like
- LH for OS/2), reinstall OS/2 choosing to reformat the disk to HPFS. And there
- it is. Faster, longer (filenames), easier!
-
- But you must know that if you are running also DOS on another partition (what
- is pretty senseless, since OS/2 has the built-in DOS box that is not slower;
- just a few games do not work in OS/2) it cannot read the HPFS partition. On the
- other side OS/2 can always read both FAT and HPFS. Everything OK?
-
-
- Aurelio Caliaro
-