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Date:      Sat, 3 Feb 1996 22:31:38 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FAT creation code ?
Message-ID:  <199602032131.WAA21451@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199602031838.TAA17717@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from "Luigi Rizzo" at Feb 3, 96 07:38:01 pm

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As Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> 
> Is anyone aware of C source that allows you to create an MSDOS (FAT)
> partition on a disk ? mformat prevents you to work on C: and in any 
> case only works for 12-bit fat entries and small clusters.

Have a look at mkdosfs(8) in -current.  I have no idea whether it's
extensible enough for your purpose.

-- 
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. ;-)



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