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Created by Abdesol on 3/20/2023 in #help
❔ Crossplatform disk formatting code
If you happen to be shooting for linux compatibility as well, disk handling works the same way there as macOS, just not using diskutil.
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Created by Abdesol on 3/20/2023 in #help
❔ Crossplatform disk formatting code
If the full proper name was provided, “/dev/disk1” it’d try to format “/dev/dev/disk1” and bust
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Created by Abdesol on 3/20/2023 in #help
❔ Crossplatform disk formatting code
Like, if you gave it the string “C:” a mac is not gonna have a clue what that is regardless.
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Created by Abdesol on 3/20/2023 in #help
❔ Crossplatform disk formatting code
It is, but, where’s the string “disk” come from?
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Created by Abdesol on 3/20/2023 in #help
❔ Crossplatform disk formatting code
I think your biggest problem is actually just going to be figuring out what drive to format. MacOS and linux use a naming scheme that is dramatically different fron Windows’ drive letters.
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Created by Abdesol on 3/20/2023 in #help
❔ Crossplatform disk formatting code
Tbh I’d rely on whatever the system is providing for disk formatting. Why touch that if you don’t have to? Here’s a mac version: https://howchoo.com/apple/format-hard-drive-macos
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Created by Abdesol on 3/20/2023 in #help
❔ Crossplatform disk formatting code
I would probably stick with your current approach and learn more about how to execute what you want fron the commandline using DiskUtil for Mac and CMD for windows.
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Created by Abdesol on 3/20/2023 in #help
❔ Crossplatform disk formatting code
Mmh. Here’s a windows version: https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/115598/Formatting-a-Drive-using-C-and-WMI But this actually uses its code to DO the formatting, where yours is using an external utility to format.
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Created by Abdesol on 3/20/2023 in #help
❔ Crossplatform disk formatting code
Disks operate pretty differently per system, are you really trying to reformat them? Or maybe just empty them? Is there a specific format you want?
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