Re: How to "mkdosfs" in Debian

[Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows@brown.edu>]

On Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 07:39:49PM -0700, Jerry Zhou <jzhou@acdcorp.com> was heard to say:
> Hello:
> 
> I found "mkdosfs" command Turbolinux /sbin. I can not find it in Debian. I
> try " dpkg -S mkdosfs" can not find it also.
> How can I make dos fs in Debain?

bluegreen:/usr/local/src/CS> ls /sbin/mk*
/sbin/mkdosfs     /sbin/mkfs           /sbin/mkfs.minix  /sbin/mkswap
/sbin/mke2fs      /sbin/mkfs.ext2      /sbin/mkfs.msdos
/sbin/mke2fs-std  /sbin/mkfs.ext2-std  /sbin/mkfs.vfat

bluegreen:/usr/local/src/CS> dlocate /sbin/mkdosfs  
dosfstools: /sbin/mkdosfs
bluegreen:/usr/local/src/CS> dlocate /sbin/mkfs.msdos 
dosfstools: /sbin/mkfs.msdos

bluegreen:/usr/local/src/CS> dlocate -s dosfstools
Package: dosfstools
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: otherosfs
Installed-Size: 100
Maintainer: Roman Hodek <Roman.Hodek@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Version: 2.5-1
Replaces: mkdosfs
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2)
Conflicts: mkdosfs
Description: Utilities to create and check MS-DOS FAT filesystems
 Inside of this package there are two utilities to create and to
 check MS-DOS FAT filesystems on either harddisks or floppies under
 Linux.  This version uses the enhanced boot sector/superblock
 format of DOS 3.3+ as well as provides a default dummy boot sector
 code.

  So probably the "dosfstools" package is what you want.

  Daniel