Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/09/00:40:33
On Tue, 4 Feb 1997, Jim Lefavour wrote:
> > I'll wait for ext2 thanks. No MS hacks on my system.
>
> DITTO... I haven't paid MS the $120 they want for the 95 upgrade,
> since I feel that they already have enough of my money - numerous dos
> upgrades, windows purchase, windows upgrade, utilities and programs,
> etc. ad infinitum - when does the hurting stop?!? Enter OpenDOS...
> :-))
The hurting stopped a year ago for me. (Linux)
> > > I would LOVE to use ext2fs, and maintain the ability to run W3.11
> > > and Dos programs, but also, I would like to see a utility like
> > > presizer or a converter for them - if I change over, why have both
> > > an MSDOS partition and an OpenDOS partition? that is if OpenDOS is
> > > working properly...
> >
> > presizer for ext2? Why? ext2 doesn't suffer from the large
> > partition == lots of wasted space blues.
>
> Exactly, so when I switch over, I'd like the FS to access the ENTIRE
> hard drive, but unless the current partition can be converted to ext2
> non-destructively, it would have to be done in steps... and mounting
> the various partitions would require that they be put under
> subdirectories, which could make for a real adventure in modifying
> the setups...
Ahhh, that will be a problem. You'll probably have to backup
your stuff to another physical drive to repartition to ext2. I
just get someone with a large disk to come over to my house and
then we put their disk in my machine and backup all of the stuff
that I must keep to their drive. (Usually everything :o) Then
I just repartition, and restore my backups. The process can take
a few days to get everything working properly again, but it is
the only way. I don't trust that repartitioning software enough
to let it do my drive without having a backup.
2gig drives are cheap now anyways.
Good luck.
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