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- From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: Creating a File System in 'C'
- Date: 28 Aug 1992 21:59:05 GMT
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
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- References: <Aug.28.11.27.51.1992.29451@gauss.rutgers.edu>
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- Keywords: C subroutine for mkfs command
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- In article <Aug.28.11.27.51.1992.29451@gauss.rutgers.edu> manmetha@gauss.rutgers.edu (Rajesh Malhotra) writes:
- > Is there a C subroutine that will create file system.
- > The crfs and mkfs commands do it, so I am sure there is a system
- >call somewhere to do this.
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- I'm not so sure. I'll bet that on most systems, these programs simply open
- the disk special file and write to it.
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