SFS for hard drives larger then 4 gig. How to install?

[amigagr]

sfs
first backup the os and any other files in other partitions you have.(if you want to use it in other partitions  of course.) copy file SmartFileSystem in L: dir. run hdtoolbox select the hard disk click partition drive and then click add/update. there you click add new... and select the file from L:. add as identifier 0x535465300. click ok and select the desired partiton. click change select SFS\00 as filesystem and add 512 block size. click ok. click save. reboot and boot with the emergency disk or install3.1 or workbench3.1 to format the drive. do a standard format not quick. copy files back. you done it.

[amigagr]

remove the sfs and do it again. must work ok from the start though... did you get the right sfs 1.254 version?

[amigagr]

no don't do it, it's not compete yet, lots of bugs

[amigagr]

Piru wrote:
@tonyvdb

This has nothing to do with size.

The location of the partition matters. If it resides even partially over the 4GB limit, regular format will trash the RDB and you lose all partitions.

i have a 28.6gb hard disk on the a1200, my 5th partition is 12gb and start at 14.5gb of the disk. i have format them all (6 partitions total 2 of them 6gb) with the standard full format and until now i have no problems

dh0 512mb
dh1   2gb
dh2/3 6gb
dh4  12gb
dh5 2.1gb


-edit-
of course i mean with sfs

[amigagr]

the format is v44.14 the scsi.device 43.43
do you think that may will be safer to reformat all the partitions with format-quick or SFSFormat just to avoid future problems?

[amigagr]

pVC wrote:
Phew... same questions always, same misunderstandings, same presumptions... isn't there any FAQ to point people Sorry, but one should think that people would have learned something during the years

yes of course the same questions etc. not all problems happend with the same results at all configurations/hardware we all have here. and of course we keep learning day by day new stuff and keep finding new problems to solve day by day too. that's one of the reasons of these kind of forums here at amiga.org too.

[amigagr]

ok, thanks for the info  :-)