From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 00:00:29 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1618 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Thursday 06 March 2008 Number 1618 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: JFS : Alan Duval 2 JFS command : Alan Duval **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:20:51 +1000 From: Alan Duval Subject: Re: JFS Kris Steenhaut wrote: > > Duval ha scritto: > >> Hi, >> >> I hope to have my new PC running within a week. > > Congratulations. > >> If I install eCs 2.0 on a JFS partition should I also make my APPS >> and data partitions JFS partitions? > > Not at all. But at this stage of the era and technonolgy, I would > strongly advise against hpfs. > >> Also is there a facility in eCs 2.0 to format existing partitions >> with JFS? > > You can do anything you want from the maintenace console at install > type and later from the drives object. Or even better, using grandpa's > method at a command prompt: > > format c: (or whatever) /jfs /q > >> Also does LVM still function with JFS? >> > It's the other way around my dear friend: jfs can't function without > LVM. :-) > Hi Kris, Thanks for the advice. Could you tell me what the /q is for? I can't see it in the command reference. I have attached the examples shown in my eCs command reference which confuses me as I don't know whether to stipulate a block size and whether to stipulate a journal log size etc. Regards, Alan Duval [attachments have been removed] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:28:29 +1000 From: Alan Duval Subject: JFS command Kris Steenhaut wrote: > > Duval ha scritto: > >> Hi, >> >> I hope to have my new PC running within a week. > > > Congratulations. > >> If I install eCs 2.0 on a JFS partition should I also make my APPS >> and data partitions JFS partitions? > > > Not at all. But at this stage of the era and technonolgy, I would > strongly advise against hpfs. > >> Also is there a facility in eCs 2.0 to format existing partitions >> with JFS? > > > You can do anything you want from the maintenace console at install > type and later from the drives object. Or even better, using grandpa's > method at a command prompt: > > format c: (or whatever) /jfs /q > >> Also does LVM still function with JFS? >> > It's the other way around my dear friend: jfs can't function without > LVM. :-) > Hi Kris, Thanks for the advice. Could you tell me what the /q is for? I can't see it in the command reference. I have attached the examples shown in my eCs command reference which confuses me as I don't know whether to stipulate a block size and whether to stipulate a journal log size etc. Sending this again with attachment in *.doc form as previous was from IBM Works file. Regards, Alan Duval [attachments have been removed] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------