Re: disk format question

2013-01-09 Thread bartels
On 01/08/2013 10:24 PM, Warren Young wrote: On 1/8/2013 08:38, bartels wrote: That may very well be true, but I have a friend called locate: I *had* a friend called which, but he didn't find it. I have now unfriended him. ;) Very funny. Yeah, know thy friends, is true. Cygwin remains a

RE: disk format question

2013-01-09 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
Warren Young wrote: If this were Linux, I'd suggest basing your script's logic on device or filesystem UUIDs, but I don't know how to do that under Cygwin. Under Cygwin, you can refer to a device by UUID by looking under the path /proc/sys/GLOBAL??/ (those are literal question marks; you'll

Re: disk format question

2013-01-09 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Warren Young! The windows format.com format.com hasn't existed since the DOS days. That includes the DOS-based versions of Windows, up through Windows ME. Under NT-derived versions of Windows, format is a built-in command in cmd.exe. You can easily check it with a simple

Re: disk format question

2013-01-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 10:12:02PM +0400, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Warren Young! The windows format.com format.com hasn't existed since the DOS days. That includes the DOS-based versions of Windows, up through Windows ME. Under NT-derived versions of Windows, format is a built-in

Re: disk format question

2013-01-09 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Christopher Faylor! Sorry, Christopher, I've had some troubles locally, and didn't see the other replies before I sent mine. On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 10:12:02PM +0400, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Warren Young! The windows format.com format.com hasn't existed since the DOS days.

disk format question

2013-01-08 Thread bartels
Hello Forum, I frequently need to destroy a file system on removable media. The windows format.com claims the fs is write protected, but I hope dd can help out. The mtab is not very helpful: D: /cygdrive/d udf binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto 1 1 My question is this: which device in /dev do

Re: disk format question

2013-01-08 Thread Warren Young
On 1/8/2013 06:59, bartels wrote: The windows format.com format.com hasn't existed since the DOS days. That includes the DOS-based versions of Windows, up through Windows ME. Under NT-derived versions of Windows, format is a built-in command in cmd.exe. claims the fs is write

Re: disk format question

2013-01-08 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 01/08/2013 10:14 AM, Warren Young wrote: On 1/8/2013 06:59, bartels wrote: The windows format.com format.com hasn't existed since the DOS days. That includes the DOS-based versions of Windows, up through Windows ME. Under NT-derived versions of Windows, format is a built-in command in

Re: disk format question

2013-01-08 Thread bartels
On 01/08/2013 04:14 PM, Warren Young wrote: On 1/8/2013 06:59, bartels wrote: The windows format.com format.com hasn't existed since the DOS days. That includes the DOS-based versions of Windows, up through Windows ME. Under NT-derived versions of Windows, format is a built-in command in

Re: disk format question

2013-01-08 Thread Csaba Raduly
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Warren Young wrote: On 1/8/2013 06:59, bartels wrote: The windows format.com format.com hasn't existed since the DOS days. That includes the DOS-based versions of Windows, up through Windows ME. Under NT-derived versions of Windows, format is a built-in

Re: disk format question

2013-01-08 Thread Warren Young
On 1/8/2013 08:38, bartels wrote: On 01/08/2013 04:14 PM, Warren Young wrote: On 1/8/2013 06:59, bartels wrote: The windows format.com format.com hasn't existed since the DOS days. That may very well be true, but I have a friend called locate: I *had* a friend called which, but he

RE: disk format question

2013-01-08 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
bartels sent the following at Tuesday, January 08, 2013 9:00 AM I frequently need to destroy a file system on removable media. The windows format.com claims the fs is write protected, but I hope dd can help out. In Windows Explorer, right clicking on the drive should give a format command.