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Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 21:58:28 EST5EDT4,M4.1,M10.5
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From:  Lewis G Rosenthal <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
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Subject: [OS2Wireless] OT - Thinkpad hibernation - moving partitions

Orest Skrypuch wrote:

> Lewis G Rosenthal wrote:
>
>> Okay, we're way OT here...but what the heck... 
>
>
> It's your list!! :-) 

As Mel Brooks said as King Louis in History of the World, Part 1: "It's 
good to be the king!" :-)

>> As Randy has pointed out DFSee does not as yet support JFS resizing. 
>> From what I've read of your posts, Orest, I'd have to suggest using a 
>> second drive as a spare onto which you could copy your JFS data.
>>
>> BTW, you cpould always boot OS/2 to a command prompt and run DFSee 
>> from there, but of course, running DFSee is not your problem. Dealing 
>> with the partition restrictions - and antiquated DOS requirements - is.
>
>
> Yes, the JFS data is not so much a problem, it can be backedup and 
> restored in a variety of ways. The problem is moving the active booted 
> C: partition, without access to a floppy boot. As I noted in my last 
> post, the trick was to create a tiny primary FAT partition and run DOS 
> Partition Magic from there, after booting from the Win98 CD. 

Thank heaven for bootable CDs. I routinely use a bootbale W98 CD for 
just such things when I'm in the field or have a system on the bench.

>
>> I'm still rather curious about this LVM-aware hibernation driver, 
>> though... 
>
>
> It's not so much that the hibernation facility is LVM aware, it is 
> just that it doesn't really care about the rest of the disk, once it 
> is set up in its FAT or FAT32 partition, there is probably a pointer 
> in system memory that indicates which sectors on the drive to dump the 
> memory to. It won't work in an HPFS or NTFS partition, and I expect 
> that that is a problem with the hibernation pseudo-partition setup 
> installer, rather than the memory dumper part of it. Randy was saying 
> it is working fine on his machine with BM installed. 

You know, it still bugs me that W2K can hibernate to a file which it 
creates on the hard drive (in the system partition), regardless which 
file system is in use, and yet we (still) have to depend on that little 
"stand alone hibernation diskette" to create an inconvenient hibernation 
file.

>
> I can let you know if I'm successful doing the same if you wish. What 
> kind of Thinkpad are you using? 

I'd like to hear of your progress, yes. T20 with PIII/700 and 512MB, BTW.

-- 
Lewis
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