xFileMount.pup -mount, unmount many file types - GUI

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sunburnt · #16 Post by **sunburnt** » Sat 02 Dec 2006, 19:26

wow; A number of the floppy images & some HD imaging apps. use the ".img" extention.
These would be auto. recognized & extentionless files would popup the types dialog.
Another common image file extention type: ".nbi" = (Network Boot Image)
I'll look into other types of images & compression formats for mime additions.

wow · #17 Post by **wow** » Sun 03 Dec 2006, 01:48

Work with the messages: if there are no more loop devices your app shows an error message, but it isn't specific and users maybe get confused. (e.g. mount pup_saveX.3fs then popup a message "Dont forget to unmount pup_saveX.3fs")

How about showing a list with the files already mounted and buttons for unmount them?

sunbunt wrote:ALSO... DOES ANYONE SEE the FILE DOWNLOAD ABOVE? I don't see it.

No, I can see anything, or even attach something. And if anyone can't see it, how to download?

So, I've mirrored your script here(But doesn't seem to work if you click it, I'd to unzip and install manually running "dotpup.sh")

Hope this helps.

sunburnt · #18 Post by **sunburnt** » Mon 04 Dec 2006, 00:25

wow; I ment: (FileName).img

And there's other "image file" extentions that aren't Puppy specific that could be added.

wow · #19 Post by **wow** » Mon 04 Dec 2006, 02:32

Ok, I'll add these extensions(info, types and icons) soon.

sunburnt · #20 Post by **sunburnt** » Mon 04 Dec 2006, 02:53

wow; Something I ment to ask but forgot to... Can I merge your DotPup with mine?

Rather than 2 packages for the same purpose, an integrated one seems best.
If it's okay, then I'll add what extentions seem appropriate in the merging.

wow · #21 Post by **wow** » Mon 04 Dec 2006, 03:09

Sure

you only will need the first one containing mime types and info(icons are optional)

sunburnt · #22 Post by **sunburnt** » Wed 13 Dec 2006, 20:11

wow; I've rewritten xFileMount, it wasn't gzipping files in some cases.

I Googled about mime & read your dotpup.sh file & can't make sense of it.
Reading the dotpup.sh files made by MU's DotPup maker is always a chore.

Anyway... I thought to just merge your files & dotpup.sh with mine, which should work.
But I decided to ask if you have any advice for doing this.

wow · #23 Post by **wow** » Fri 15 Dec 2006, 03:03

sunburnt wrote:wow; I've rewritten xFileMount, it wasn't gzipping files in some cases.

I Googled about mime & read your dotpup.sh file & can't make sense of it.
Reading the dotpup.sh files made by MU's DotPup maker is always a chore.

Anyway... I thought to just merge your files & dotpup.sh with mine, which should work.
But I decided to ask if you have any advice for doing this.

Yes, it was made with MU's DotPupWizard, but you dont need the dotpup.sh from it, unzip my dotpup and extract "FILESYSTEM.tbz" and leave the rest, just add the files on FILESYSTEM.tbz to your dotpup. Alternatively you can download any dotpup packed by GuestToo and examine his dotpup.sh

sunburnt · #24 Post by **sunburnt** » Fri 15 Dec 2006, 06:42

Thanks wow, I made a new DotPup & updated the download post.

I still don't quite grasp all the workings of the whole MIME thing.
I'll have to search for a tutorial as my Linux book is worthless.

### P.S.
The LongHorn icons are great!
How to set the icons system wide for file extention types?
I ask because Puppy 110 is being talked about in another post & this'd really jazz it up!

wow · #25 Post by **wow** » Fri 15 Dec 2006, 19:51

If you want to add more extensions(e.g. .img) open the file "/root/Choices/MIME-info/xfilemount" with leafpad/geany:

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xfilemount/ext3
	ext: 3fs

xfilemount/ext2
	ext: 2fs

xfilemount/iso
	ext: iso

xfilemount/sfs
	ext: sfs

xfilemount/fs
	ext: fs

Then add these lines:

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xfilemount/img
	ext: img

And save the file. Now go to "/root/Choices/MIME-types/" and create a new file "xfilemount_img"(or copy xfilemount_<something> to xfilemount_img) open that with a text editor and specify an action if you want.

To use the new types restart X or Re-read mime-types from Rox options.

sunburnt · #26 Post by **sunburnt** » Sat 16 Dec 2006, 01:32

Thanks wow, I'd looked at that & figured thats how to add new types to apps.

My Q really was how to set the icons in the ROX file browser for file extention types.
Like you did with your addon to xfilemount, so file types in ROX have different icons.
I know I can set the icon for each individual file with the ROX utility,
but I wanted to set an icon for each file type: .iso, .sfs, & etc. like you did.

Thus making ROX more like the Win. file browser for the new Puppy 110.

Thanks for your help with this... Terry

wow · #27 Post by **wow** » Sat 16 Dec 2006, 05:37

Oh

, that's easy. Example for .img: once you have the new mime type right click on its icon, choose "Set icon", select "Only for the type" and drag an icon. The new icon will be placed at "/root/Choices/MIME-icons/"

You can see all the mime types for rox 1.x in this file: "/usr/local/share/Choices/MIME-info/Standard" but don't worry about that because is an old version and will be replaced in Puppy-2.13 with a new version of ROX-Filer.

mikeb · #28 Post by **mikeb** » Sat 16 Dec 2006, 13:17

Dumb question time...
Files are mounted as 'read only' is this correct or do I need to do anything?

regression 2.2 puppy

Working fine...nice addon

mike

sunburnt · #29 Post by **sunburnt** » Sat 16 Dec 2006, 17:09

Hi mikeb; It depends on what file type your mounting.

Squash files: ".fs" & ".sfs" ALWAYS mount as read-only.
To change a Squash file, a new one must be made.

All the other image file types mount as read-write (or they should).
This means you can write to them, but image files are made a given size,
so you can't add to them past the amount of free space in the image file.

xFileMount is a file mounter only, PizzasGood's file mounters may make
a new image file that's larger as is needed because you've added to the
image file, thus forcing a new larger one in size to be made.
I've made utilities that make new larger or smaller image files, but
I haven't posted them except in a few cases where folks asked for them.

mikeb · #30 Post by **mikeb** » Sun 17 Dec 2006, 00:59

Ok thanks for the explanation...all has become clear

I had been using the Edit-sfs.pup and was looking to tinker with a .fs file...
Mount...extract...alter...rebuild externally is the way in this case

many thanks

mike

sunburnt · #31 Post by **sunburnt** » Sun 17 Dec 2006, 06:58

I wrote a GUI utility for making new Squash files as I'm sure many have,
but then Puppy should have tools like this as they've very small & useful.

The remaster scripts (there's quite a few) make new Squash & Gzip images.
Alot of the time apps. added to the big Squash file need config files in /etc,
which is in the Gzip file (initrd.gz = Puppy2) or (image.gz = Puppy1).
Also the WindowManager menus are in /root in the Gzip image file.

These scripts make it easy, just setup Puppy how you want it & remaster.
Puppy runs so many different ways, the scripts remaster just a few of them.

lederlunge · #32 Post by **lederlunge** » Wed 20 Dec 2006, 12:19

is there any chance to teach this application to work with tar.gz files ?

sunburnt · #33 Post by **sunburnt** » Wed 20 Dec 2006, 20:09

Hi lederlunge; Puppy has a Gzip app., but I find half the time that it doesn't work.
Yes GZip & Tar functions could be added to it, I thought about that,
but they don't really perform file mounting as such, so I didn't include it.

I'm in the process of adding some new capabilities to xfilemount, so I'll
keep compression formats in mind for upgrading it to a multi use app.

kleung21 · #34 Post by **kleung21** » Thu 21 Dec 2006, 01:41

Sunburnt...

Thanks for this utility - I find it very useful.

lederlunge · #35 Post by **lederlunge** » Fri 22 Dec 2006, 11:24

i have not understood how to make a *.tar.gz file with Gzip.

thanx anyway

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