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   mark lewis to Holger Granholm   
   Installing OS/2   
   07 Jul 15 12:00:26   
   
   06 Jul 15 14:54, you wrote to Tommi Koivula:   
      
    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).   
      
    TK>> I'm running DOS programs from bigger JFS partitions without problems.   
    TK>> Problems will appear if the free space is more than 2GB, but there is   
    TK>> a nice utility called Spacehog. It will fill up the drive so that the   
    TK>> free space always remains below 2GB. ;)   
      
    HG> Yes, and there's another program - 2Gbfix.com - for the same purpose   
    HG> but I don't know if that can be used on a JFS system.   
      
   apparently it can since the DOS subsystem doesn't care about the file system   
   format... it simply makes requests and the OS fulfills them or not...   
   available space requests go through the DOS subsystem and then to the OS...   
   2gbfix catches the return value and ensures that it is sane before passing it   
   back to the requestor...   
      
    HG> I know I have the 2GBFIX.COM but I'm not sure about Spacehog. Probably   
    HG> I have that too.   
      
   spacehog is good and ok... i generally when with something much easier,   
   though... i created a large file and then just copy it to numerous names to   
   eat the space... when i need more room, i simply delete one or more of those   
   files ;)   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
   ... She denied eating my peppers, but demanded *lots* of ice cream *now*.   
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