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

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

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 simpl

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 pr

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 mo

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. Whe

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 didn

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" i

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 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 i

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 protect