I downloaded IceFS208.lha, copied the files into C: L: Libs: and Devs: and rebooted.

IceFS doesn't appear as an option in HDConfig and FS Format only shows my HFS formatted DH0:

I moved the files into the relevant MOSSYS: directories and rebooted.

Same again in HDConfig and FSFormat.

So I tell HDConfig I want my DH2 to have no partition type and try FSFormat again, same problem as before.

What am I doing wrong?

I changed the type of the partition with SYS:Tools/Mounter to ICE2 and then FSFormat allowed me to format it with IceFS.

Strange, but at least it now works. :)

no offense.. but in the IceFS readme, it tells you where to change the FSType.. glad its working though.

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I think I'd not saved the changes to the partition type string in HDConfig, can't think of any other sane explanation.

It's been running nicely ever since though and I haven't experienced any of the problems I'd been having with PFS either.

Off to buy a keyfile for IceDoctor to support the dev now. :)

Did not need the doctor so far.
But an online defragmentation tool would be nice (no gui needed, cli should be enough).

Intuition,
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what issues? Just wondering. I'm fixing to switch to IceFS on my new G5.

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Weird stuff like gccselect throwing up strange errors when the SDK was on PFS, the whole OS locking up as soon as I compile a small C source file yet if copied the same file to ram: or an SFS partition on the same disk it would compile as normal. I was experiencing lockups at random when doing nothing in particular too which didn't happen when I used only SFS and have mysteriously stopped happening now I'm using IceFS.

It may have just been coincidental, but it's strange that it's stopped happening now.

BTW I checked the partition type in hdconfig and I had indeed not saved it. I shall put the dunce's hat on and sit in the corner!

IceFS is out for a while now and I remember someone saying some years ago that next MOS release will account for it in HDConfig. It must have been somewhere in the MOS 2.x era. But so far HDConfig is still unchanged for 5 years and ICeFS is still not easy to be configured for at least 3 releases (alongside with the other problems like with big harddrive like 2TB and more). Why? The IceFS author is part of the MOS team so it should be doable quite easily. Contributions from ISO image are not installed to the harddrive anymore, so many users do not know about IceFS and cannot rest it/report bugs because of that.

no biggie. I learned by messing up myself

I made the same mistake. Did not read the manual so missed the part where you modify the id number of the file system for the partition.
You'd figure it'd be all gui and no typing.
Oh well.
I do love Ice.