[Toybox] [New Toys] - fstype, blkid

[Rob Landley]

On 10/10/2013 10:39:36 AM, dmccunney wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 3:04 AM, Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
> > On 10/08/2013 12:46:34 PM, dmccunney wrote:
> >>
> >> On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Rob Landley <rob at landley.net>  
> wrote:
> >> > Are there a lot of thumb drives formatted NTFS out in the wild?  
> (I'll add
> >> > code to deal with a real world problem, my question is whether  
> this is a
> >> > real world problem? No idea.)
> >>
> >> I have one.  But I made it for a particular purpose by  
> reformatting it
> >> as NTFS.  (I likewise have an ext2 thumbdrive.)  Every other thumb
> >> drive I've seen comes formatted as FAT16 or FAT32 depending on  
> size,
> >> because pretty much everything can read a FAT filesystem.
> >>
> >> I doubt all that many people will have Bad Things Happen because
> >> toybox doesn't grok NTFS on the thumb drive. A generic "I don't  
> know
> >> what this is" error message should be adequate.
> >
> > Oh it'll identify it as ntfs, it just won't give a label, which may  
> confuse
> > hotplug automounters that call the command line tool instead of  
> having type
> > identification built-in.
> 
> Okay, I can see lack of label being an issue.  Still not sure it's
> *enough* of an issue to merit more code.
> 
> > (Mind if I cc: the list?)
> 
> Nope.  Feel free.  (Meant to put it on the list to begin with, but
> didn't do reply all.)
> 
> > Rob
> ______
> Dennis

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Rob
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