In <%fzZC.488832$PE5.359272@fx37.iad>, Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> writes: >johnsuth@nospam.com.au 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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On Sat, 30 Jun 2018 20:47:14 UTC, johnsuth@nospam.com.au wrote:

In <%fzZC.488832$PE5.359272@fx37.iad>, Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> writes:

johnsuth@nospam.com.au wrote:

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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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johnsuth@nospam.com.au wrote:

In <%fzZC.488832$PE5.359272@fx37.iad>, Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> writes:

johnsuth@nospam.com.au 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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