LOL.

Yea I dont know wtf happened. Decided to shutdown and install a second drive in my G4 PowerMac running MorphOS 3.1. It says it cant find "WORK:" which is my DH2 partition. So I run SFS doctor and I do save the metadata, then I wait....and wait...and wait..dunno if SFSDoctor is doing anything at all. Just sitting at "Creating core filesystem structures". I think I'm done for the night. Maybe a reformat and reinstall is up next.


Picture of the error: http://imgur.com/MRZ4LE5

At any rate, which FS is best to use? I have SFS right now, is IceFS better? PFS?



***EDIT***: I found out the problem..its NOT a bad hard drive. I was reinstalling MorphOS and the old partitions were still mounted, for some reason it was locking up when trying to reinstall (I thought it would unmount it automatically). If I unmounted it, then it worked fine.


[ Edited by TheMagicM 25.05.2013 - 17:28 ]

Stop using SFS. It is complete shit.

I have fully switched to using the ICE file system and all of the "el crapo" data loss that comes from using SFS has stopped once and for all.

My 2 cents worth.

So I can use IceFS for even the boot drives?

Well, the boot drive is the exception, I am pretty sure.
I haven't tried to override the boot drive so I don't know.
You can add the ice file system to the RDB so I think it is bootable.



You should most definitely use the ice file system for all data drives, or you can keep using SFS and keep having to run the SFS doctor over and over and over again.


[ Edited by bash64 25.05.2013 - 10:49 ]

My day isnt starting too well. My second drive...created a IceFS partition..just copied something to it from ram..MorphOS locked up. LOL. Very strange. I powered off and back on..the files are there but when I try to delete it, it locks up again. (I used HDConfig to set the filesystem to custom, IceFS, then formatted.)


On my primary drive, since the drive is SFS..how would I make one partition on there (Non bootable partition) to be IceFS? Using a mountlist?

[ Edited by TheMagicM 25.05.2013 - 10:07 ]

> So I can use IceFS for even the boot drives?

No, and as you have a Mac not even for the MorphOS system partition.

https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=9136&forum=3&start=4

> You can add the ice file system to the RDB so I think it is bootable.

On a Mac there's no RDB, so not possible there for the MorphOS system partition, and also not for the boot partition because Mac OpenFirmware doesn't know IceFS. And even on a Pegasos or an Efika 5200B, which have an RDB, it's possible for the MorphOS system partition but not for the boot partition as SmartFirmware doesn't know IceFS.

Looks like my hard drive(s) went bad. Strange. Bought 2 160gb hd's and a CT4830 sound card.

Thanks for clearing that up.


Didn't have my mac in front of me and couldn't remember the partition types off hand.
I knew that you can't do it from the mac partition.

Yea it was freakin weird. MorphOS locking up partitioning a drive...

I changed the FS to custom on the second drive and it worked but the primary..I set it but it doesn't auto mount even when I set it.

I'll test with these other hd's.

How do I set for example, DH2 which is 128GB free space, to IceFS? Its on the primary hard drive which is SFS.




***EDIT***: I found out the problem..its NOT a bad hard drive. I was reinstalling MorphOS and the old partitions were still mounted, for some reason it was locking up when trying to reinstall (I thought it would unmount it automatically). If I unmounted it, then it worked fine.

[ Edited by TheMagicM 25.05.2013 - 17:26 ]

Weird... Were your 160GB drives Samsung? I've had trouble with mine in the last few days while partitioning / installing and still haven't been able to revive it. I bought it new in January 2011 for my powerbook but have hardly used it.

no, my 160gb hard drives are fine...all of them are fine.