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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