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« on: August 05, 2018, 07:07:51 pm »
Dariusz, I feel for you but I too wonder about the wisdom of putting everything on one JFS partition. I learned years ago the consequences of doing that but fortunately I only had to reformat one partition and the backup was up to date.
When I first started using OS/2 (v2.1) one of the techies at the local IBM office advised me to use at least two partitions - one for the operating system and the other for programs and data - The reason he gave was that if a fixpak messed up the OS I could reinstall without touching the programs and data.
Over the years those two partitions have turned into 7 - OS (on a small HPFS), Tools, Programs, Work, Home (a concession to the ported programs), General (for things like mozprofiles etc.) and Store (where items are stored as it is generally quicker to get than going to one of the NAS boxes). Except for the OS partition they are all standard JFS partitions.
Lately I have been experimenting with AMD ITX boards with APU second gen A series and Ryzen processors. I have also decided to use FireCuda 2 Tb disks as standard. With those disks the partitioning is setup using DFSee (disks plugged into a SATA/USB adapter). I can then format them and copy what I need over. I do allow ArcaOS to format the OS partition as HPFS and copy files to the correct partitions, this is a continuation of what I did before with OS/2.
Why am I rattling on? It might give you some ideas, it might help others as others have helped me in the past. I will also add that doing it this way has cut down the recovery time after a total disk failure to half an hour (we made images of the basic data on the partitions).