04 Jul 15 23:11, you wrote to Sean Dennis:   
      
    SD>> I'd recommend using JFS for any drive larger than 64GB...which is   
    SD>> HPFS' limit.   
      
    HG> No thanks, I still want to have some DOS programs available and for   
    HG> that purpose also will limit partition size to 2Gb (at least some).   
      
   from what i've read, you can still run 2gbfix.com in your DOS tasks and it   
   will handle that just fine for the most part... i have one disk divided into   
   2gig partitions and the other is in 10gig partitions... the DOS side of the   
   fence doesn't care and accesses all equally well... i don't have JFS in   
   operation, though... only HPFS...   
      
    HG> Actually I do already have a separate DOS (C:) at the beginning of the   
    HG> first HD. The second HD is actually a mirror of the main one.   
      
   i had thought to do something like that at one time but needed the space for   
   operations... now i use rsync to backup everything to another system on the   
   network... if i shut down the bbs nodes and a couple of other tasks, the   
   process takes less than 10 minutes... if i leave everything up and running, it   
   may take up to or over an hour due to the files being accessed and updated   
   during normal processing... i'm glad i finally took a look at rsync and   
   finally have another machine with enough storage space to be able to back up   
   to...   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
   ... If cows have horns, why do they moo instead of honk?   
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