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BETA: unmount/remount utilities for ext2-os2 (FILE system drivers)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthieu Willm)
Wed Dec 25 04:47:37 1996
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 25 Dec 1996 09:36:44 GMT
From: willm@ibm.net (Matthieu Willm)
Reply-To: willm@ibm.net
Reply-to: willm@ibm.net
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UNMOUNT/REMOUNT UTILITIES FOR OS/2 VERSION 1.00
*** BETA VERSION ***
Copyright (C) Matthieu Willm 1996
WHAT ARE THESE UTILITIES FOR :
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I wrote these (very) small utilities mainly to allow ext2-os2 (the Linux ext2
file system for OS/2), to cleanly unmount removable media before removing them
from their drive. Actually they are file system independent (that's why I
release them separately).
unmount.exe will cleanly unmount a drive by committing all data and detaching
the file system currently attached to it. After this operation, the OS/2 drive
letter is still present, but the drive cannot be accessed. This utility issues
a true unmount of the file system from the drive (eg it's a real unmount, not
a hack, by calling the IFS's FS_MOUNT entry point).
remount.exe will force OS/2 to reattach a file system to the specified drive.
If a file system was already attached, it will be detached first. remount.exe
can be called to be able to gain access to a drive previously unmounted with
unmount.exe.
Normally these utilities should work for all LOCAL file systems. At the moment
they have been reported to work with the following file systems :
- OS/2 High Performance File System (HPFS) : hpfs.ifs
- OS/2 File Allocation Table (FAT)
- OS/2 CDROM File System (CDFS) : cdfs.ifs
- Linux ext2fs IFS (ext2-os2) : ext2-os2.ifs (version 2.20 or later
recommended)
If you tested it with other file systems, please let me know so that I
can update this list.
REQUIREMENTS :
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- OS/2 WARP V3 or V4
- EMX runtime version 0.9c
(ftp://ftp-os2.nmsu.edu/os2/unix/emx09c/emxrt.zip)
COPYRIGHT NOTICE :
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These utilities are licensed under the terms of the GNU general public
license.
WHERE TO FIND THEM :
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ftp://ftp-os2.nmsu.edu/os2/diskutil/mnt_100b.zip (or /incoming)
Matthieu Willm
<willm@ibm.net>
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