[haiku-development] Re: mkbfs/mkfs, new filesystems initialization utility

  • From: Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:40:36 +0200

Stephan Assmus wrote:
> 
> Marco Minutoli wrote:
> > On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:42:10 +0200
> > Gabriele Biffi <mlist@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Stefano Ceccherini wrote:
> > > > 2008/4/16, Gabriele Biffi <mlist@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > > > 
> > > > >  An add-on based "format" utility would be cool, with both CLI and
> > > > > GUI frontends.
> > > > >
> > > > AFAIK this shouldn't necessary, since the disk device api handle 
> > > > this already.
> > > 
> > > So we need the user's side app only, right?
> > > 
> > AFAIK yes, just the user app.
> > 
> > IMO we need only the CLT because DriveSetup already has the ability of 
> > initialize a new filesystem and I think there is no reason to build 
> > another GUI program for this.

I just remembered that Ingo already wrote a command line partitioner, it is 
in the src/tests/apps/partitioner/. It also uses the Disk Device API to 
initialize partitions with "disk systems" (ie file systems, but there has 
to be an add-on for each).

Best regards,
-Stephan

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