Amiga File Systems

[Vincent]

I've been using SFS since January this year on a 20Gb hd and had no problems with it at all.

It's great :-)

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@Karlos

I haven't had any problem with SFS at all and I haven't heard of any serious problems with it either.  There are SFS specific ReOrg/QB Tools like stuff on aminet.  Just look for SFS and you'll get all you need.

just to be on the safe side though, you could try to keep all your important stuff on a partition below the 4Gb mark and on FFS until you're really sure about SFS.  Then you can change that to SFS later on if you decide to.

That's the way I did it.  For some reason (I can't remember what) OS3.5 will only see 8Gb of my 20Gb hd, so I kept all the important stuff within that limit so I can get it back after a quick re-install if anything goes seriously wrong.

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You didn't misunderstand my post at all :-)

I did a complete reinstall when I got the 20Gb hd, but no matter how much I fiddled with it and told it what it was it wouldn't recognise anything above 8Gb after a reset.

I remember something about the 4-way buffer (which I have, so I always press yes) and I vaguely remember something about the "support for larger disks" and I'm pretty sure I pressed yes for that too.

It works fine under OS3.9, so I won't bother doing a reinstall of 3.5 to find out, unless I really have to ;-)

Cheers for pointing that out though :-)

EDIT:  @Karlos

It only happened under OS3.5, it's fine under OS3.9 so I'm not worried about it.  As long as I can get the stuff below the 8Gb limit OS3.5 has here for emergency purposes I'm happy :-)

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After a quick Googling I found this:

PFS3 support page - You can get the archive here too (it might have the install script but it's probably the same archive that's on Aminet)

I've never used PFS3, so I can't help any further :-(

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duesi wrote:
@Vincent
The links are dead on that page

Ah right, I'll be more thorough the next time ;-)

But I have the Install-script now.. (It was in the archive !)

A spot of temporary blindness then? :-D