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    From [email protected]@21:1/5 to Dave Yeo on Sat Jun 30 20:47:14 2018
    In <%fzZC.488832$[email protected]>, Dave Yeo <[email protected]> writes: >[email protected] wrote:
    Can a stick be formatted in HPFS or JFS?


    Yes, I have a 128 GB JFS formatted stick here.


    I thought DFsee would be appropriate for making a 32 GB JFS stick, and although I did not write down every step, I think this is what I did:-

    Delete existing partition and its contents.
    Create new partition
    Menu>Script>Make 0x35 classic JFS disk>Create DFsee type ox35 JFS data stick This changed the menu Mode to JFS
    Menu>Mode>Set FS status>Set FS mounted clean
    Menu>Mode>Check JFS file system. It showed Status null, Drive letter null, Type
    LVM.

    OS/2 Drives recognised the stick in the F: USB port but could tell me nothing about it.
    The command format F: /FS:JFS fell straight thru to the next prompt and did nothing.

    How can I format the stick?




    Are there better solutions?

    Use zip, just make sure to use the correct parameters (which I forget
    right now) to backup everything. Most file managers will read the zip
    file and allow restoring individual files

    I have observed that Windows can show the contents of a zip file, but which OS/2
    app will do that?

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  • From Pete@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sun Jul 1 20:16:28 2018
    On Sat, 30 Jun 2018 20:47:14 UTC, [email protected] wrote:

    In <%fzZC.488832$[email protected]>, Dave Yeo <[email protected]> writes:
    [email protected] wrote:

    --snip--

    I have observed that Windows can show the contents of a zip file, but which OS/2
    app will do that?

    archview.exe will hsow a file list, but if you want to view or extract a particular file in the archive, use WarpZip.

    HTH,
    Pete

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  • From Dave Yeo@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sun Jul 1 18:33:18 2018
    [email protected] wrote:
    In <%fzZC.488832$[email protected]>, Dave Yeo <[email protected]> writes:
    [email protected] wrote:
    Can a stick be formatted in HPFS or JFS?


    Yes, I have a 128 GB JFS formatted stick here.


    I thought DFsee would be appropriate for making a 32 GB JFS stick, and although
    I did not write down every step, I think this is what I did:-

    Delete existing partition and its contents.
    Create new partition
    Menu>Script>Make 0x35 classic JFS disk>Create DFsee type ox35 JFS data stick This changed the menu Mode to JFS
    Menu>Mode>Set FS status>Set FS mounted clean
    Menu>Mode>Check JFS file system. It showed Status null, Drive letter null, Type
    LVM.

    OS/2 Drives recognised the stick in the F: USB port but could tell me nothing about it.
    The command format F: /FS:JFS fell straight thru to the next prompt and did nothing.

    How can I format the stick?

    IIRC, I created a FAT32 stick with DFSee and then formatted it as JFS.





    Are there better solutions?

    Use zip, just make sure to use the correct parameters (which I forget
    right now) to backup everything. Most file managers will read the zip
    file and allow restoring individual files

    I have observed that Windows can show the contents of a zip file, but which OS/2
    app will do that?

    There's a few, I usually use File Commander/2.
    Dave

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