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In message <5850jo$n1j@mblisd.macquarie.com.au> - rolan@ibm.net (Randy
Olan)4 Dec 1996 23:14:00 GMT writes:
> 
> I've got OS/2 and Windows currently installed on
> one machine and need to install W95 with long file name
> support.  I have a common drive partition that will
> be used by W95 and OS/2.  I'd like to know if
> any problems will exist if I use W95 long file names
> on this drive.  Of course I won't be accessing W95 files
> under OS/2, but will this cause any corruptions, and will
> I be able to run OS/2 disk utilities against the common
> drive without any problems?
> 
> BTW I won't be installing FAT32, I'll only have the base W95
> with service pack 1.

So long as it's FAT16, it should work fine.  You won't be able to
access the Win95 long filenames, but OS/2 pretty well ignores the VFAT
entries that contain those names, so OS/2 won't corrupt them; and
Win95 pretty much ignores the OS/2 EA file, so that should be safe. 
Some exceptions, though:

1) Some relatively old versions of OS/2 CHKDSK did reportedly cause
   problems with VFAT LFNs, but this has long since been fixed.  If
   you're running Warp 3.0, I'd recommend installing the latest
   ServicePack to be sure you don't run into this problem.
2) Some (mostly old) DOS disk utilities (like disk defraggers) would
   sometimes fail to copy the "unused" bits OS/2 uses to point to
   the EA file offsets, thus trashing the EAs, as far as OS/2 is
   concerned.  The utilities included with Win95 are all safe, and
   AFAIK the same is true of most or all current third-party
   utilities.  Just avoid the really old stuff.

> rolan@ibm.net

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