Cosmos: [QUESTION] Drives

[365Tito]

How do I format an empty drive?

[jp2masa]

It hasn't been implemented yet.

[365Tito]

How is the current file system formatted then? Maybe I could figure something out of it?

[jp2masa]

You can create an empty disk file in VMware I think.

[365Tito]

So it wont require any additional formatting if I do that?
I was asking this because I was wondering if this is capable of running on real hardware with a blank hard drive.

[jp2masa]

Probably it will... You can load the virtual disk in VirtualBox and format it there, using for example Ubuntu.

[365Tito]

Oh okay.
I think that C/C++ can do some low-level disk access and could be used to create a bootable formatting tool that could work well with cosmos. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[jp2masa]

I'm planning to implement a feature like that using DiscUtils (for virtual hard disks), but right now I'm still working on other project system features.

[365Tito]

Allright. Thanks and well, good luck on the features!
And I want to add : This community is by far the most helpful that I encountered online.

[fanoI]

It should be done in C# and in Cosmos itself so one could implement the "format" command in your OS.
We already manipulate the HDD at low level having implemented FAT, probably format is not too much different.

[zarlo]

@365Tito the current file system format is FAT, there was some talk that someone(s) got cosmos able to edit the MBR

[fanoI]

Working started on this see: https://github.com/CosmosOS/Cosmos/issues/924