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) _at__at_ -725,9 +725,20 _at__at_ /* 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;Received on Tue Nov 25 2008 - 08:36:48 UTC
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