From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 24 15:42:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA20156 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 15:42:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mpp@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA20128; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 15:41:25 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Pritchard Message-Id: <199703242341.PAA20128@freefall.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: dump for MS-DOS partitions. To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 15:41:24 -0800 (PST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, port-i386@netbsd.org, darrenr@cyber.com.au In-Reply-To: <19970324214916.YH08116@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Mar 24, 97 09:49:16 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk J Wunsch wrote: > > Better name it `dosdump'? Remember, there's more DOSes than just M$. > Also, we do already have a mkdosfs(8), maybe somebody would even write > a dosfsck(8). (mkdosfs doesn't understand harddisks however. I'm not > the right person to ask for this, my DOS knowledge is too weak.) 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. -- Mike Pritchard mpp@FreeBSD.org "Go that way. Really fast. If something gets in your way, turn"