From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 3 13:51:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA04365 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 13:51:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA04351 for ; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 13:51:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id WAA10853; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 22:51:39 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA02094; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 22:51:38 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id WAA21451; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 22:31:39 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199602032131.WAA21451@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: FAT creation code ? To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo) Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 22:31:38 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199602031838.TAA17717@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from "Luigi Rizzo" at Feb 3, 96 07:38:01 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 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)