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From: ken@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ken Farinsky - CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: How to determine which FS a disk uses?
Message-ID: <22450@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 14 Jun 91 14:33:09 GMT
References: <17277@chopin.udel.edu>
Reply-To: ken@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ken Farinsky - CATS)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <17277@chopin.udel.edu> don@chopin.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd) writes:
>    I've got a 3000, and format most of my floppies under FFS nowadays.
>Unfortunately, I never bothered to label many of the FFS floppies as such,
>so now when I give them to non-3000 owners to use, problems arise :-).
>    As an excercise in Amiga C programming, I'd like to throw together a
>little utility to look at a specified disk and report what FS it has been
>formatted under...

I would recommend doing this as a script.  You can get all the
information you need from the info command.  Note the size
differences in the following:

    1. format drive df0: name blank-OFS quick noicons
    1. info df0:
    Unit      Size    Used    Free Full Errs   Status   Name
    DF0:      837K       2    1756   0%   0  Read/Write blank-OFS

    1. format drive df0: name blank-FFS quick noicons FFS
    1. info df0:                                          
    Unit      Size    Used    Free Full Errs   Status   Name
    DF0:      879K       2    1756   0%   0  Read/Write blank-FFS
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Ken Farinsky - CATS - Commodore Business Machines