Re: CVS commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinst

[Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>]

martin@ wrote:

> Module Name:	src
> Committed By:	martin
> Date:		Mon Oct 12 14:29:41 UTC 2020
> 
> Modified Files:
> 	src/usr.sbin/sysinst: disks.c
> 
> Log Message:
> Remove very strange code that special-cased MSDOS file systems and refused
> to newfs the partition (despite explicit request to do so) if it was
> mountable.
> Accidently carried over from a dim and distant past, before we had
> fsck_newfs.

http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/distrib/utils/sysinst/Attic/disks.c#rev1.98
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/distrib/utils/sysinst/arch/arc/Attic/md.c#rev1.29

IIRC I added it to avoid users from accidentally destroy existing native
Windows partition (for NetBSD/arc that initially required FAT partition).

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Izumi Tsutsui