[Request] Format Disk

an, for the next version of CC, can the developers add a disk format ? or the users of forum make a program for this ?

What do you mean?
"format <side>" in shell? to completely wipe a disk?

Yes this !

Access Denied

FuzzyPurp, on 14 February 2012 - 03:05 PM said:

umm in shell type delete disk/

I think that results in "Access denied"

You could use something like this (untested, no checking):

sDisk = {...}

for _, sFile in pairs(fs.list(sDisk[1])) do
fs.delete(sDisk[1] .. "/" .. sFile)
end
-- Done?

save as "format" or whatever, then type:
format disk/

It should clean the directory (it shouldn't have to be recursive, since only disk drives are protected)

Edit: fixed and tested, should work now.

Well, I did one for the HDD. Should be easy enough to modify. *goes to work*

thanks Advert and Kaleb XD

Advert, on 14 February 2012 - 03:15 PM said:

FuzzyPurp, on 14 February 2012 - 03:05 PM said:

umm in shell type delete disk/

I think that results in "Access denied"

You could use something like this (untested, no checking):

sDisk = {...}

for _, sFile in pairs(fs.list(sDisk[1])) do
fs.delete(sDisk[1] .. "/" .. sFile)
end
-- Done?

save as "format" or whatever, then type:
format disk/

It should clean the directory (it shouldn't have to be recursive, since only disk drives are protected)

Edit: fixed and tested, should work now.

I think it's a good idea to add
disk.setLabel(side)
at the end to also clear disk label

EvgEniy, on 16 February 2012 - 02:08 PM said:

Advert, on 14 February 2012 - 03:15 PM said:

FuzzyPurp, on 14 February 2012 - 03:05 PM said:

umm in shell type delete disk/

I think that results in "Access denied"

You could use something like this (untested, no checking):

sDisk = {...}

for _, sFile in pairs(fs.list(sDisk[1])) do
fs.delete(sDisk[1] .. "/" .. sFile)
end
-- Done?

save as "format" or whatever, then type:
format disk/

It should clean the directory (it shouldn't have to be recursive, since only disk drives are protected)

Edit: fixed and tested, should work now.

I think it's a good idea to add
disk.setLabel(side)
at the end to also clear disk label

Yeah, that would be a good addition, but you might not always want to clear the label.

Yeah, that would be a good addition, but you might not always want to clear the label.

In that case you would add an argurment boolean to check if it does or not.