From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 25 05:15:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA11066 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 05:15:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from eac.iafrica.com (196-31-98-110.iafrica.com [196.31.98.110]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA11058 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 05:15:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by eac.iafrica.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) id PAA19119 for hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 15:11:16 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199703251311.PAA19119@eac.iafrica.com> Subject: Re: dump for MS-DOS partitions. In-Reply-To: from Warner Losh at "Mar 24, 97 10:14:26 pm" To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 15:11:15 +0200 (SAT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [Cc list trimmed.] 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