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

  • From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:09:52 +0200

On 2008-04-16 at 14:40:36 [+0200], Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Stephan Assmus wrote:
> > Marco Minutoli wrote:
> > > 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).

The partitioner is interactive (and only a test app anyway). I think having a 
non-interactive generic mkfs would be a good idea. It shouldn't be hard to 
write either.

CU, Ingo

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