en:docs:ifs:utils

Disk & filesystem maintance utilities and interfaces

-proposal-

Command line tools

Disk and filesystem maintance utilities consist of four command line tools. FORMAT, CHKDSK, SYSINST and RECOVER.

Utility library

As mentioned above, all disk and file maintance utilities just interface to actual functions. For each filesystem exists dynamic library with name U<FS>.DLL where <FS> is file system name. It contains four interfaces (as actual number of file system tools). Here interface of such functions:

interface Disk
{
  MakeBootable
  Check
  Recover
  Format
}

OS/2 compatibility layer

For compatability with OS/2 supported following DLL entry points.

SYS
RECOVER
FORMAT
CHECKDSK