On 05/29 2023 16:56 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
hfsutils works like mtools, it doesn't use the kernel's VFS layer. Tools like "fsck" and "mkfs" are still on the TODO list as you can see in the TODO file [2] ...Thanks, I missed this important detail. hformat is just a stub, it doesn't really do anything...Oh, I wasn’t aware of that.
Sorry, I was wrong. I missed it in the source code. Actually, the format function hfs_format can be found in libhfs/hfs.c from the hfsutils sources. But it looks ugly, because it includes partition management (like selecting the number of APM partition to format on a block device). We could make a wrapper script mkfs.hfs that utilizes hformat and normalizes its usage though... Linux User #330250