small newfs_msdos addition
Luigi Rizzo
rizzo at iet.unipi.it
Tue Nov 25 01:36:48 PST 2008
If there are no objections I'd like to commit the small patch below
to newfs_msdos.c -- all it does is create a fake geometry if
it cannot get the media size, which is handy when you want to
create a filesystem image on a regular file.
Before the patch you need to do
newfs_msdos -h 32 -s 64 -o 0 -S 512 -s `du -k /the/file` /the/file
after the patch it becomes
newfs_msdos /the/file
which is a bit more friendly especially if you have to type it manually.
cheers
luigi
> svn diff head/sbin
Index: head/sbin/newfs_msdos/newfs_msdos.c
===================================================================
--- head/sbin/newfs_msdos/newfs_msdos.c (revision 185290)
+++ head/sbin/newfs_msdos/newfs_msdos.c (working copy)
@@ -725,9 +725,20 @@
/* Maybe it's a floppy drive */
if (lp == NULL) {
- if (ioctl(fd, DIOCGMEDIASIZE, &ms) == -1)
- errx(1, "Cannot get disk size, %s", strerror(errno));
- if (ioctl(fd, FD_GTYPE, &type) != -1) {
+ if (ioctl(fd, DIOCGMEDIASIZE, &ms) == -1) {
+ struct stat st;
+
+ bzero(&st, sizeof(st));
+ if (fstat(fd, &st))
+ err(1, "Cannot get disk size");
+ /* create a fake geometry for a file image */
+ ms = st.st_size;
+ dlp.d_secsize = 512;
+ dlp.d_nsectors = 64;
+ dlp.d_ntracks = 32;
+ dlp.d_secperunit = ms / dlp.d_secsize;
+ lp = &dlp;
+ } else if (ioctl(fd, FD_GTYPE, &type) != -1) {
dlp.d_secsize = 128 << type.secsize;
dlp.d_nsectors = type.sectrac;
dlp.d_ntracks = type.heads;
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