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hoven
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 Posted: Mon 12 Dec 2011, 02:02 Post subject:
 What is best way to edit pupxxx.sfs? Compression type xz. |
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I want to make some permanent changes to the main pupxxx.sfs but when I tried the Edit-SFS utility the result was a much larger sfs than the original. I believe this may have to do with use of xz compression (not that I know what that means).
Please tell me the best tool to edit the sfs and keep the original size relationship. If it's via command line like unsquashfs and mksquashfs then please point out the correct parameters to use.
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Karl Godt
Joined: 20 Jun 2010
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Location: Kiel,Germany
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| Posted: Mon 12 Dec 2011, 23:07 Post subject:
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| Quote: | # ./mksquashfs-4.2-xz
./mksquashfs-4.2-xz: error while loading shared libraries: liblzma.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory |
after installing the Lib in /usr/lib i get
| Quote: | # ./mksquashfs-4.2-xz
SYNTAX:./mksquashfs-4.2-xz source1 source2 ... dest [options] [-e list of exclude dirs/files]
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Compressors available and compressor specific options:
gzip (no options) (default)
xz
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upnorth
Joined: 11 Jan 2010
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Location: Wisconsin UTC-6 (-5 DST)
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Posted: Tue 13 Dec 2011, 01:02 Post subject:
-comp xz for mksquashfs 4.2
Subject description: mksquashfs 4.2 comp option |
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Here is the command i used for racy, run from the parent dir of squashfs-root:
mksquashfs squashfs-root/ puppy_racy_5.2.1.90.sfs -comp xz
Otherwise, the main script for Edit-SFS in ~/my-roxapps/Edit-SFS/apprun could be altered with -comp xz added to (line 222 or so) and would probably work.
echo -e "#!/bin/sh\n'$MKSQUASHFS' '$TREE' '$TREE_BASE/$SFSFILE' -comp xz" > "${TREE_BASE}/script"
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hoven
Joined: 21 Jun 2010
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Posted: Tue 13 Dec 2011, 04:44 Post subject:
Re: -comp xz for mksquashfs 4.2
Subject description: mksquashfs 4.2 comp option |
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| upnorth wrote: | | Otherwise, the main script for Edit-SFS in ~/my-roxapps/Edit-SFS/apprun could be altered with -comp xz added |
Thank you for explaining the syntax in the script file and very good. That's exactly what I had hoped for and the sfs size stays the same now. Looks like using the xz compression has quite an impact.
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8-bit
Joined: 03 Apr 2007
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Location: Oregon
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How will this effect the use of two utilities, edit-SFS and edit-init?
I use one to edit the puppy SFS files and the other to edit initrd.gz.
I have noticed that I used to be able to click on a puppy SFS file to mount it if it was not in use.
But some of the releases now will not mount by just clicking on them.
Is that due to the new xz compression method?
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Karl Godt
Joined: 20 Jun 2010
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Location: Kiel,Germany
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Mounting xz compressed sfs works since kernel 2.6.38 .
Slacko 2.6.37.x would have still a problem to mount these .
Slacko 2.6.39.x not .
You would have to unsquashfs the sfs and mksquashfs -comp gz again for backwards compatibility .
The diff is not small : a 60MB sfs xz comp would become 72MB gz comp (+20%) .
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