FAT32 and other file system no longer supported by MKFS or Drivesetup

[SeanCollins]

FAT32 and other file system no longer supported by MKFS or Drivesetup, there was a mailing list thread about this some months ago but I am leaving this here as a ehnacement.

[korli]

What means other?

[SeanCollins]

mkfs and the haiku drivesetup utility used to include several modules besides BFS and NTFS, I cannot recall what all of them are or where, but I thought at least 1 or 2 were linux and unix type formats.

[korli]

mkdos still exists ​http://cgit.haiku-os.org/haiku/tree/src/bin/mkdos/

Disk system addons are located here: ​http://cgit.haiku-os.org/haiku/tree/src/add-ons/disk_systems/ with only BFS and NTFS.

IMO only BFS and NTFS were ever supported by DriveSetup.

[anevilyak]

I likewise don't recall DriveSetup ever supporting anything else.

[SeanCollins]

Replying to korli:

mkdos still exists ​http://cgit.haiku-os.org/haiku/tree/src/bin/mkdos/

Disk system addons are located here: ​http://cgit.haiku-os.org/haiku/tree/src/add-ons/disk_systems/ with only BFS and NTFS.

IMO only BFS and NTFS were ever supported by DriveSetup.

run mkfs on a recently nightly, and see how it goes. shouldn't mkdos be in mkfs ? if haiku is to provide a consistent and sane user interface. As to anevilyak's comment, fat32 and ext used to be supported in drivesetup iirc. these changes landed with ntfs support if my memory isn't to fuzzy

[umccullough]

I though I remembered DriveSetup and/or mkfs supporting dosfat/fat32 as well, but I just booted alpha4.1, alpha3, and alpha2 to check and none of them had it...

I guess I must have confused which ones were writable with which ones were initializable.

[mmu_man]

Wasn't it BeOS' DriveSetup that supported FAT instead?

I started writing a DriveSetup addon for FAT but didn't get very far.

As for mkfs, it seems to also use the DiskSystems addons already, so writing a FAT module would add support to both the GUI and the CLI tools.

mkdos instead is an old hardcoded tool that should go away once the FAT addon works.

[waddlesplash]

FAT fs driver came from BeOS, it's R1-feature-complete, moving enhancement tickets out of R1

[SeanCollins]

Please close, FAT32 NTFS and BEOS are all now supported in drivesetup again.

[diver]

Implemented in hrev49816.