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Pizzasgood · Posted: Fri 09 Dec 2011, 22:55 Post subject:

Yeah, my website randomly disappeared for some reason. Been distracted the last couple days and didn't notice until tonight. Just sent in a support ticket to find out wtf happened.

chrome307 · Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 713

Hi there

Is the pet file still available?

I have checked the link in the 1st post and on the wikki and it gives me a file:

editsfs-2.1.man (?) 8kb

should this not be a *.pet file?

Thanks in advance!

puppyluvr · Posted: Wed 16 May 2012, 23:24 Post subject:

Hello,
Still works for me..
http://www.browserloadofcoolness.com/software/puppy/PETget/edit_sfs-2.1.pet

chrome307 · Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 713

Hi there, thanks for letting me know, but I still appear to have the same problem Embarassed

puppyluvr · Posted: Thu 17 May 2012, 17:53 Post subject:

Hello,
LOL, the screen shot helped a lot..
You are using Windows to D/L it, and Windoze dont see no .pet files..
I believe that whatever Winblows calls it, D/L it, and reboot to Puppy, it should show up as a .pet..
But really, I recommend D/Ling it in Puppy...
If it wont D/L try renaming it .zip first... Wink

Whatever it takes to D/L is, after you reboot to Puppy, rename it to *.pet first to install it in Puppy..

ICPUG · Joined: 24 Jul 2005 Posts: 1309 Location: UK

I'm not sure if this is what Puppyluvr is saying or not!

Windows may not recognise .pet files and think they are something else. In your case it seems to think it is a .man file.

Just download it and it will be called edit_sfs-2.1.man.

It will still be called edit_sfs-2.1.man in Puppy.

Start Puppy and rename the file to edit_sfs-2.1.pet.

Click to load the pet.

Alternatively download it with Puppy and it will be downloaded with the correct name.

chrome307 · Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 713

OK, thanks to both of you Smile

Finally got it working ..... very pleasantly surprised to see it's an absolutely tiny app.

rg66 · Posted: Mon 24 Sep 2012, 02:31 Post subject:

Very usefull tool! However, when it recompresses the sfs file is quite a bit larger than the original. The sfs file's I want to edit are compressed with xz, does this app only use gz and if so can it be changed to use xz?

CatDude · Joined: 03 Jan 2007 Posts: 1573 Location: UK

Hello rg66

rg66 · Posted: Mon 08 Oct 2012, 09:01 Post subject:

Thanks CatDude! I was close, I had -comp xz on the right line but in the wrong place. Just tested and it's working great.

rg66 · Posted: Thu 22 Nov 2012, 09:13 Post subject:

Ok, I wanted to have the option of choosing compression type. I took some of the code from an SFS builder script and modified this one to give xz or gz options.

It does work, but since I'm a newbie at this could someone who knows what they're doing give me the proper code? This seems a bit redundant. Also, this script uses X-dialog which I couldn't get to work.

Dewbie · Joined: 15 Apr 2010 Posts: 1779

rcrsn51 wrote:

Pelo · Last edited by Pelo on Sat 23 Jan 2016, 02:10; edited 2 times in total

Edit_SFS : the most useful tools ? I can make the ISO as I like, SFS to, adding or removing stuff. Nice. Very nice Razz

Hesse James · Joined: 08 Feb 2010 Posts: 106

Hi
I often use edit-sfs. I recently tried to delete some files out of a large SFS-file (>100 MB). To my astonishment the resulting file was significant larger than the original one despite the deletion (+10%). The reason were the not optimized compression parameters for mksquashfs inside edit-sfs. Therefor I added the command line parameters according to:
http://techoverflow.net/blog/2013/01/11/create-highly-compressed-squashfs-from-folder/.
This modification might be helpful for you too.
Christian

ASRI éducation · Joined: 09 May 2009 Posts: 3203 Location: France