From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 11 18:16: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from satsuma.mail.easynet.net (satsuma.mail.easynet.net [195.40.1.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E90F914F16 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 18:15:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ak@freenet.co.uk) Received: from freenet.co.uk (alister.w.easynet.co.uk [212.212.251.86]) by satsuma.mail.easynet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 007E57B02D for ; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 02:15:56 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <382B7870.C84ECFF1@freenet.co.uk> Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 02:16:16 +0000 From: Alex X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: fsck_ext2fs and fsck_msdos from Open/NetBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Both Open- and NetBSD seem to have separate fsck programs for each filesystem type - fsck_ffs, fsck_ext2fs and fsck_msdos - the actual /sbin/fsck program calling the appropriate one for a given filesystem (in a way similar to our `mount' command). The last two (fsck_ext2fs and _msdos) are nonexistent in FreeBSD. If someone (e.g. me when I have some spare time) were to port them over, would anyone object to their way of doing things? Just wondering... Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message