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Setup & Installation / Re: Re-organizaing OS/2-eCS Directories.
« on: July 21, 2014, 07:51:03 pm »
Martin, I'm sorry but I just don't understand what you are trying to do.
Moving those directories around id not going to save space so why bother? The standard boot partition we use is less than 1 GB in size and that includes a few things we have added to the standard OS/2 install disk image ( cups, java, snap tools, utility and warpin ).
For us 'programs' is a different partition as is 'data'. We chose this because it makes backups very easy and by having images of the various partitions in both their 'first installed' state and 'when something changes' after that. Restoring after system or disk failure is usually less than 2 hours including replacing failed parts.
What you are trying to do has the appearance of rearranging the deck-chairs on the Titanic - may look nice but is useless in improving the OS. The examples you give in 'Recommendation #8 – Directory and File Structure', make me wonder if you have ever looked in the 'windows' directory - it is a mess much worse that anything seen on OS/2 and any flavour of Linux isn't much better. To follow the windows way and dump everything on the boot partition (I know win7 does create a hidden boot partition if you let it) is just asking for trouble, something IBM were careful to try and avoid when they designed OS/2.
My thoughts can be summed up as, 'if it is working then there is no need to fix it'.
Moving those directories around id not going to save space so why bother? The standard boot partition we use is less than 1 GB in size and that includes a few things we have added to the standard OS/2 install disk image ( cups, java, snap tools, utility and warpin ).
For us 'programs' is a different partition as is 'data'. We chose this because it makes backups very easy and by having images of the various partitions in both their 'first installed' state and 'when something changes' after that. Restoring after system or disk failure is usually less than 2 hours including replacing failed parts.
What you are trying to do has the appearance of rearranging the deck-chairs on the Titanic - may look nice but is useless in improving the OS. The examples you give in 'Recommendation #8 – Directory and File Structure', make me wonder if you have ever looked in the 'windows' directory - it is a mess much worse that anything seen on OS/2 and any flavour of Linux isn't much better. To follow the windows way and dump everything on the boot partition (I know win7 does create a hidden boot partition if you let it) is just asking for trouble, something IBM were careful to try and avoid when they designed OS/2.
My thoughts can be summed up as, 'if it is working then there is no need to fix it'.