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Subject: Adding a new entry to Disk Utility's "Volume Format" menu.
From: Ron Aldrich <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:51:05 -0800

This isn't really a kernel question, but since it's a file system question, and the folks who know the answer to it frequent this list, I'll ask here anyway.

How does one add their filesystem's format utility to Disk Utility's "Volume Format" menu.

I've tried an experiment, just to see if I can get *anything* to show up, and I'm getting rather strange results.

I added the following to my FSPersonalities dictionary (cribbed directly from msdos.fs - note the change to the FSName string), and it only appears in Disk Utility if I remove msdos.fs from my FileSystems folder.

	<key>FSPersonalities</key>
	<dict>
		<key>MS-DOS</key>
		<dict>
			<key>FSFormatArguments</key>
			<string></string>
			<key>FSFormatContentMask</key>
			<string>DOS_FAT_32</string>
			<key>FSFormatExecutable</key>
			<string>../../../../../../sbin/newfs_msdos</string>
			<key>FSFormatMaximumSize</key>
			<integer>0</integer>
			<key>FSFormatMinimumSize</key>
			<integer>32768</integer>
			<key>FSMountArguments</key>
			<string></string>
			<key>FSMountExecutable</key>
			<string>../../../../../../sbin/mount_msdos</string>
			<key>FSName</key>
			<string>MS-DOS File System (hack)</string>
			<key>FSRepairArguments</key>
			<string>-y</string>
			<key>FSRepairExecutable</key>
			<string>../../../../../../sbin/fsck_msdos</string>
			<key>FSVerificationArguments</key>
			<string>-n</string>
			<key>FSVerificationExecutable</key>
			<string>../../../../../../sbin/fsck_msdos</string>
		</dict>
	</dict>

If I change <key>MS-DOS</key> to anything else, it does not appear.

Is there another dictionary somewhere that lists the supported FSPersonalities?

Thanks,

Ron Aldrich
Software Architects, Inc.
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