Re: [Freedos-user] : File systems with metadata support

2013-11-22 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 12:41 PM, dmccunney wrote: > > Test Disk is designed to recover *partitions*, not files. It searches > for backup copies of the partition table and does substitutions when > the main one is damaged. It bypasses the file system(s) entirely and > does low level raw dis

Re: [Freedos-user] : File systems with metadata support

2013-11-22 Thread dmccunney
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 8:24 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 6:20 PM, wrote: >> On 2013-11-22 00:46, Rugxulo wrote: >>> I suggest you just try to use a user-space program like TestDisk. I >>> haven't used it much, but in minimal testing it did seem to access my >>> ext3 partition co

Re: [Freedos-user] : File systems with metadata support

2013-11-22 Thread Tom Ehlert
> Also, what are the chances that someone within the FreeDOS community may > one day write a driver for a filesystem which supports extended > attributes? Zero. for a simple reason: there is no functionality ('API') like Get/SetExtendedAttributes in DOS; therefore DOS programs can't support this

Re: [Freedos-user] : File systems with metadata support

2013-11-22 Thread Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
Eric Auer, Fri, 22 Nov 2013 11:18:08 +0100: > As far as I know, 4DOS does not support commands like "copy all > files with rollercoaster in the description to drive X:" According to the 4DOS 'copy' instructions, it does support it: 4DOS Help Topic: COPY /I"text": Select source files by matching

Re: [Freedos-user] : File systems with metadata support

2013-11-22 Thread Eric Auer
Hi :-) >> Also, what are the chances that someone within the FreeDOS community may >> one day write a driver for a filesystem which supports extended >> attributes? Not necessarily support for a standard filesystem (ext2, >> ext3, etc), mind you. A homebrew filesystem too would be good enough, I