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Date:      Tue, 25 Mar 1997 15:11:15 +0200 (SAT)
From:      Robert Nordier <rnordier@iafrica.com>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: dump for MS-DOS partitions.
Message-ID:  <199703251311.PAA19119@eac.iafrica.com>
In-Reply-To: <E0w9OZ0-00073i-00@rover.village.org> from Warner Losh at "Mar 24, 97 10:14:26 pm"

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Warner Losh wrote:

> In message <199703242341.PAA20128@freefall.freebsd.org> Mike Pritchard writes:
> : Doesn't either NetBSD or OpenBSD have a mkdosfs command?  Maybe
> : they even have a dosfsck by now...I remember seeing some man pages
> : X-refs for it sometime ago, but the command was vaporware at
> : that point.
> 
> Last time I checked OpenBSD, it was just a renamed program from
> FreeBSD and didn't grok hard disks.

If anyone wants mkdosfs to handle hard disks, I can submit diffs.

Adding this functionality struck me as a bit pointless, but I
contributed a clone of the MS-DOS `format' utility to FreeDOS a
year or two ago, so the DOS specifics are already worked out.

--
Robert Nordier



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