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- From: price@helios.unl.edu (Chad Price)
- Subject: Re: Hidden Files, Defragmentation, Backup
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- References: <1992Aug19.161500.15942@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <1992Aug19.195841.10447@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 19:00:05 GMT
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- sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Aug19.161500.15942@sbcs.sunysb.edu> mjn@sbstaff2.cs.sunysb.edu (The Sixth Replicant) writes:
- >>In the August "Inside OS/2" there's an article about defragmenting FAT
- >>partitions. It suggests making EA DATA. SF non-hidden while defragmenting
- >>so that it can be defragmented. This made me wonder about whether other
- >>hidden OS2 files are movable. I'm interested for two reasons. First,
- >>to get maximum defragmentation, and second to be able to backup and
- >>restore without reinstalling OS/2. What can people tell me about the movability
- >>following hidden files ?
- >> \os2\system\boot.os2
- >Yes.
- >> \os2\bitmap\aaaaa.exe
- >Yes.
- >> \os2\bitmap\aaaaa.met
- >Yes.
- >> \io.sys
- >No.
- >> \msdos.sys
- >No.
- >> \ea data. sf
- >Yes.
- >> \os2boot
- >No.
- >> \os2ldr
- >Yes.
- >> \wp root. sf
- >Yes.
- >> \os2krnl
- >Yes.
- ...
-
- A word of caution: I tried this - made the above mentioned files non-hidden and
- and system and non-read-only, and wound up having to reformat the drive and
- reinstall everything. Timothy is usually right, but I would be VERY cautious
- about this ... perhaps my mistake was in moving os2boot (?)
-
- In any case, Timothy, where did you find out about the movability/immovability
- of the various files. I've glanced throught the Red Books and not yet spotted
- the answer there. Where is it??
-
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- chad
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