On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 21:47 -0400, solarwind wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 9:09 PM, Mark Rages<markrages@gmail.com> wrote:
> > mkfs.msdos -C
> 
> It's actually mkfs.dosfs

If you feel like nitpicking: nope:

ll /sbin/mkfs*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 146460 2007-07-26 06:57 /sbin/mkfs.reiserfs
-rwxr-xr-x 5 root root  50984 2009-02-12 10:37 /sbin/mkfs.ext4dev
-rwxr-xr-x 5 root root  50984 2009-02-12 10:37 /sbin/mkfs.ext4
-rwxr-xr-x 5 root root  50984 2009-02-12 10:37 /sbin/mkfs.ext3
-rwxr-xr-x 5 root root  50984 2009-02-12 10:37 /sbin/mkfs.ext2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  19000 2009-02-18 14:43 /sbin/mkfs.minix
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  17852 2009-02-18 14:43 /sbin/mkfs.cramfs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   9600 2009-02-18 14:43 /sbin/mkfs.bfs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   5484 2009-02-18 14:43 /sbin/mkfs
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      7 2009-04-24 18:34 /sbin/mkfs.vfat ->
mkdosfs
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      7 2009-04-24 18:34 /sbin/mkfs.msdos ->
mkdosfs

it's actually mkdosfs

This is of course under Ubuntu, other distros might name things
differently.

Now, to get back on topic, to the OP, you can also use dd to copy a
"live" partition, if you want your handler to work on a file system with
more then just empty structures.

Remember, on Linux/Unix everything is a file.

TTYL

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