Fsetter

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Here is a new tool to control a lot of things of the new FAT/VFAT/FAT32 filesystem in FreeMiNT 1.15. It can be run as programm or an acc. You can change a lot of options on the fly.

[edit] Short description

1. select a drive

2. all non supported options are disabled

3. General options:

VFAT

  • enable/disable VFAT extension on this drive
  • supported from NEWFATFS

MagiC sym-links

  • enable/disable MagiC style symlinks on this drive;
  • WinNT doesn't like MagiC style symlinks for example, that's why exist this option
  • supported from NEWFATFS

Write-Back Cache

  • enable/disable Write-Back mode on this drive Write-Back means that write access is buffered; this will extremly speedup a lot of operations. It's not recommended to disable this option on MinixFS
  • always safe (also if operations are performed at the moment on this drive)
  • supported from MinixFS and NEWFATFS

4. Name mode:

  • supported from NEWFATFS
  • only available for if VFAT extension is disabled
  • restrict allowed characters for new file names
    • GEMDOS - all GEMDOS characters, default
    • ISO - characters after ISO (characters, digits, underscore)
    • MSDOS - all MSDOS chracters are allowed

5. FAT32:

  • supported from NEWFATFS
  • only available on FAT32 partitions FAT Mirroring enable/disable FAT Mirroring that means all FAT or only the specified FAT is updated if you disable FAT Mirroring, you must first specify the active FAT, active FAT can be 1 to 'Number of FATs'

6. Info:

  • print some information about this drive and the description of the filesystem running

7. Change - apply the actual settings Quit - leave this dialog without any change Change + Quit - set actual settings and leave dialog

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