From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 20 10:01:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA13532 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 10:01:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ceia.nordier.com (196-31-98-38.iafrica.com [196.31.98.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA13510 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 10:01:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rnordier@iafrica.com) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by ceia.nordier.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id TAA02445; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 19:59:50 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199803201759.TAA02445@ceia.nordier.com> Subject: Re: newmsdosfs anyone ? In-Reply-To: <199803200921.KAA04297@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from Luigi Rizzo at "Mar 20, 98 10:21:47 am" To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo) Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 19:59:49 +0200 (SAT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: rnordier@iafrica.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Luigi Rizzo wrote: > Hi, > > i am in the need of creating a formatted MSDOS filesystem on >512MB > disks from FreeBSD. > > One option i used was mtools but only for small disks, and i am not > sure how it works with larger disks. In any case, i was wondering if > there is some smaller code doing only the formatting part of the work... > > thanks > luigi The latest mtools works pretty well for large disks. I have a revised mkdosfs (the current FreeBSD one only does floppies) which I've been meaning to polish and submit, anyway. This handles FAT12, FAT16, and FAT32. If you want to review/test it, I can send it to you by the end of next week. -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message