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OS4 and big file
Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2021 8:26 am
by PanzerGeneral
I wanted to burn a DVD under OS4. I sucked in a 2.3GB zip archive. While unpacking, unarc reported a corrupted archive after a few minutes of opening. I opened the same archive sent via network to my Linux laptop without any problems. Is this a problem with handling large files? ISO after unpacking is 2.9 GB
OS4 and big file
Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2021 8:27 am
by NamelessOne
The DOS in AmigaOS4 should handle such large files, but the question is whether your filesystem supports. What do you have the partition formatted in?
OS4 and big file
Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2021 9:10 am
by Zenobi
not enough ram? use unzip from CLI
OS4 and big file
Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2021 10:47 am
by Hover
FFS 53.2 formatted by default during system installation
OS4 and big file
Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2021 12:06 pm
by Oldlegends
2GB of RAM. There must be more than the file you want?
OS4 and big file
Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2021 12:40 pm
by ThisGuy01
I do not know what the archive was packed into, maybe there is a bug in XAD, it recently happened by accident with the 7zip files, where the 2GB archive did not want to unpack under UnArc, but directly from p7zip by all means. So try to just unpack it from a console or filemanager configured to work with a specific packer without XAD.
FFS can handle files up to 4GB, although it's an old and slow filesystem, so I wouldn't recommend it. It seems that in AOS 4.1FE it was still in the SFS system itself, now a newer version of SFS is in the Enhancer Software package.
OS4 and big file
Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2021 1:10 pm
by Laudguy
I am just reinstalling the system on SSD and unfortunately the SFS formatted partition does not start. OF Pegasosa reports filesystem not supported
OS4 and big file
Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2021 2:37 pm
by ThatGuy02
OKAY. I already remembered how it was supposed to be. Small FFS partition from amigaboot.of and SFS system partition.
By the way, I have a question. How big should the swap partition be with 2GB of RAM?
OS4 and big file
Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2021 3:08 pm
by NamelessOne
1. In principle, it is not necessary to create a BOOT partition on the Pegu.
2. SWAP: 2xRAM is recommended, that is 4GB for you.
3. Do you have 2GB of RAM in Pegu? Give me your memory dice and your OF version.
4. Give the link to the archive from the first post, I will check it at home.
OS4 and big file
Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2021 4:51 pm
by SummerFLower
I am not a Pega specialist, but because it is an unusual machine, in the sense that it does not have a U-BOOT, so it is similar to X1000 in this respect, then such a small partition on FFS (or FAT) should rather be if we want to have system partition in SFS (or possibly NGFS in the future).
It is recommended, but with a small amount of RAM, eg 512MB, while with 2GB of physical memory, SWAP is not needed at all.