From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Jan 30 03:14:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA05493 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 03:14:16 -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 DAA04191 Tue, 30 Jan 1996 03:05:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA14046; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 10:23:32 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA00956; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 10:23:31 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id DAA10887; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 03:29:47 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601300229.DAA10887@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: mkdosfs To: charnier@lirmm.fr (Philippe Charnier) Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 03:29:46 +0100 (MET) Cc: bugs@freebsd.org, joerg@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199601291224.NAA09726@lirmm.lirmm.fr> from "Philippe Charnier" at Jan 29, 96 01:24:52 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-bugs@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Philippe Charnier wrote: > > Add 1440 as the default value for the -f flag, so this flag is no longer > mandatory. According to the man page and the usage string, this flag is > said to be optionnal. I think i've found a way to find out about the device automagically. It's a bit tricky, but should work for the common cases. -- 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. ;-)