From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Nov 1 00:52:22 1995 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id AAA03585 for bugs-outgoing; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 00:52:22 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA03476 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 00:51:25 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA27711 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 09:51:09 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA03490 for freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 09:51:09 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id JAA16806 for freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 09:42:56 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199511010842.JAA16806@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: misc/804: fdformat - patch to add DOS-filsystem To: freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 09:42:56 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199511010609.RAA17920@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Nov 1, 95 05:09:38 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 437 Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Bruce Evans wrote: > > OTOH, supported file systems should be supported by standard utilities > (not mtools). Ok, so we should create a "newdosfs(8)" utility. Most likely one that does also create some valid boot code, so it's being recognized by msdosfs (the 0x55aa). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)