[BusyBox] Add mkdosfs tool (mkfs.msdos) [PATCH]
Steven Scholz
steven.scholz at imc-berlin.de
Tue Jul 19 07:13:17 UTC 2005
Hi Jason,
> I recently needed to be able to format fat32 volumes on my embedded
> system. I have attached a patch that adds this support to busybox.
> It is based on the mkdosfs application from the dosfstools package.
> It is installed as mkfs.msdos.
Can you tell us something about memory usage of your applet please.
The original mkdosfs allocates the _whole_ (!!!) FAT before writing it to disk.
Although it is mainly all set to zero.
This means you can _not_ format large disks (some gigabytes) on an embedded
system with only e few megabyte RAM ...
--
Steven
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