small newfs_msdos addition
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
pjd at FreeBSD.org
Tue Nov 25 05:40:31 PST 2008
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 10:41:25AM +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> 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.
Yes, please!
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