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Extra sfs's do not load into RAM (in other words the contents do not decompress fully in RAM) but the loading process itself uses some RAM about 10MB per extra sfs in my experience. That's why you can't unplug your drive.

I see, is there anyway to make it load into RAM and decompress there? Or I ...

When you SFS-load an SFS from a Puppy without a SaveFile/Folder, a GUI will open offering to copy it somewhere. The choice at the bottom of the options list --the one you would select-- is NO COPY. As I understand it, it will just be mounted with links in RAM being created as necessary to its ...

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Because the way ventoy works, after booting the iso file the USB flash drive can't be mounted unless removed first and then re-inserted again.
And this is only possible when copying the whole thing into ram.
savefile is ok, but I don't need all the settings to be saved, since I'm ...

I apologize for the confusion, since I don't seem to be able to phrase what I need.
I'm using ventoy to boot puppylinux ISO file, so I need to boot everything into ram with pfix=ram, then remove the usb flash drive and re-insert it again to access the data on the drive.
Which is great on it's own ...

First of all thanks for all the great work that's being put in puppy linux.

I'm using puppylinux, FossaPup64 and boot it with ventoy.
And it works great, I've downloaded libre office .sfs file and load that to run it as well.
My question is, How to create custom .sfs file for jq (JSON parser) and ...