TIA
Lewis
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>Anyone have any idea as to what happens with a FAT dump partition (max
>size 2GB) when the physical RAM in the machine >=2GB?
nothing happens, including no dump. ask me this question again in January
when I hope
I will have more time to go into this. In the meantime, use process dumps if
you have >2gb of RAM.
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On 12/02/2003 10:55 am, Scott G. thus wrote :
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Take a look at testcase and discover dumpfs.ifs
Klaus Staedtler
Summary:
- put udumpfs.* in \os2\dll, dumpfs.* in \os2\boot, and replace
\os2dump with \os2dump.hd
- Add IFS=DUMPFS.IFS to config.sys.
- Create a partition with LVM or whatever. LVM is such a terrible
utility that the best I can suggest is use
"create a partition that can be made bootable" and then delete it
from boot manager (if installed).
Make sure the partition is at least as large as your phyiscal RAM
size.
- Format x: /fs:dumpfs (x: is whatever)
- add TRAPDUMP=X:,R0 (or whatever) to point the dump at the right
drive.
That ought to do it. Note that I was too lazy to add EA support to the IFS,
so the workplace shell gets upset if you try to
look at the drive with a drives object. Use a command prompt or PMDF or
whatever to get to the dump.
This is beta (at best) software. I am almost certain that there is still a
problem with dumpfs trapping with
some configuration of partitions. I will listen to sensible and not too
time-consuming suggestions and will accept
bug reports (though I make no particular guarantee about response time).
-Scott
> This is beta (at best) software. I am almost certain that there is still a
> problem with dumpfs trapping with
> some configuration of partitions. I will listen to sensible and not too
> time-consuming suggestions and will accept
> bug reports (though I make no particular guarantee about response time).
>
This is probably a sensible but too time-consuming suggestion - have
you ever considered compressing the dump file? I suspect that in most
cases, the space savings would be tremendous - that was certainly my
experience with zipped up system dumps.
Michal
Not only that, but dumps to diskette are also compressed.
I've dumped a 256 meg machine to 15 diskettes.
Bob Plyler
Bob Plyler wrote:
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> Not only that, but dumps to diskette are also compressed.
> I've dumped a 256 meg machine to 15 diskettes.
>
> Bob Plyler
>
The last 256 meg machine I got a floppy diskette dump on took, IIRC,
sixty-five (65) floppy diskettes. My key machine is 512MB here. I
have no room on it for an additional FAT 16 dump partition and ...
shudder .. only 128 freshly formatted floppy diskettes waiting. Where I
hope to heck they get to stay forever. .. ;)
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Mike Luther
>...I have no room on it for an additional FAT 16 dump partition and ...
>shudder .. only 128 freshly formatted floppy diskettes waiting. Where I
>hope to heck they get to stay forever. .. ;)
Personally, I suggest that you not bother. There's a pretty high chance that,
after dumping to
all those floppies, one or more would be invalid, anyway.