Edit-SFS 2.1 (squash filesystem editor)

[ASRI éducation]

Edit_SFS : the most useful tools ?

This is the best GUI I know to edit sfs.
Regards

[Ghost Dog]

Me too.

Except sometimes, on some installations, I can't use a working partition, only ram. A bunch of gtk errors appear and even though I select "partition" it keeps popping up asking until I choose "ramdisk".

That's really annoying. But otherwise, great app!

[ASRI éducation]

Except sometimes, on some installations, I can't use a working partition, only ram.

Edit-SFS need a ext* partition, it is not compatible with fat/ntfs.
Is this related to your problems?

[Ghost Dog]

Are you sure? Because I can use that ntfs partition all the time with Edit-sfs, it's just certain distros that give me that gtk error that I have problems with.

Cheers

Edit: I just tried using / as my partition, since I'm on a full install that's ext4. Same thing...

[ASRI éducation]

Are you sure? Because I can use that ntfs partition all the time with Edit-sfs, it's just certain distros that give me that gtk error that I have problems with.

I thought of this possibility, if you used a folder fat/ntfs placed outside the pupsave.

Edit: I just tried using / as my partition, since I'm on a full install that's ext4. Same thing...

It is abnormal.
I admit that it's been (2 years) I have not used this utility (since I do everything from the command line).
I'll try to find some time to reinstall and test it.

Regards

[Ghost Dog]

That's ok. Just adding my two cents, that's all.

[rufwoof]

Don't know about the sfs edit utility, but I've just run

mksquashfs <directory> some.sfs

on a ntfs partition and created the sfs fine. Opened it and content ok

Also ran

unsquashfs some.sfs

and it created the squashedfs-root directory containing the content of the sfs

To see which compression choices are available - in a terminal type

mksquashfs --help

Mine show gzip, xz, lz4, lzo as available choices, but that's because I recompiled with lz4 support. It also shows the compression switch/choices

[Pelo]

Pet does not work anymore at Home. I check for that. EditSFS is so useful !
About partition SFS needed, use your RAM, ASRI !
error was : edit-sfs, not editsfs (terminal)
Be careful using a laptop Acer. Temperature goes up to 84° celsius when editing
I compress in Gz format first, if fine, i launch again edit SFS to compress XZ. It's my way, only my way.
"To see which compression choices are available - in a terminal type
mksquashfs --help" Rufwoof, you are my best helper in this forum ! graphics, video and editSFS, thanks a lot

[LazY Puppy]

Creating a SFS from dir with files from ntfs partition will work properly.
Creating a SFS from dir with files from vfat will work also properly.

The/a general problem will appear when trying to extract the content of a SFS to a vfat and/or ntfs partition.

Vfat will loose all symbolic links and ntfs (as well as vfat) will turn/change all plain text files without the file extension into executable script files (the ones with the green text color) - so you can't open them in a text editor anymore by left-clicking the text file.

I recommend to use ext partitions generally when it comes to the creation and/or extraction of packages - no matter if .tar.gz, .pet, .deb or .sfs etc.pp. Since you are in linux, you should do anything done on those linux files by using a ext partition generally and only there!