On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, William "Chops" Westfield wrote:

> 
> On Aug 22, 2009, at 6:09 PM, Mark Rages wrote:
> 
> >> Does anyone know where I can get some binary files containing  
> >> complete
> >> fat16 filesystems?  I supposed a floppy disk image dump might work.
> >
> > mkfs.msdos -C
> 
> Ah.  I should have been more explicit.  I would like the image to  
> contain a file system that INCLUDES some files, hopefully exhibiting  
> several features of the filesystem like discontiguous files, sub- 
> directories, etc.

once you've created your filesystem simply mount it and write files and
directories to it.

e.g.

mount -o loop my_fat16_filesystem_file /mnt

cd /mnt

mkdir a_fat16_directectory

cd a_fat16_directectory

echo "hello world" > a_fat16_file

cd

umount /mnt


Regards
Sergio Masci
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