[ale] mkfs.sysv ??

[dan singhal]

On Sun, 20 Oct 1996, Geoffrey Myers wrote:

> Is there such a beast as mkfs.sysv?  I tried to create a sysv filesystem
> on a floppy with 'mkfs -t sysv' and mkfs complains it can't find mkfs.sysv.
> I've checked the HOWTO's and ftp sites but can't find a reference.  Is it
> possible to create a sysv filesystem?

i think linux does read-only SysV filesystems, which means it wouldn't 
have a clue how to make one ...
i think ...
it's been a while since i actually read the options when i recompile my 
kernel ...

if it can write, too, then ... i don't know offhand where you might want 
to look ... probably something like sysvutils-<nmber here>.tar.gz package 
somewhere, but i don't remember ever seeing that on any of the linux 
sites ... if you can find somewhere that has sysv native systems, then 
they might have source code for their utilities and that might be coerced 
into compiling on linux ...

sorry i couldn't be more useful ... 

--dan

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