wtsi-hgi/mkfs_udf_portable_hd

Name: mkfs_udf_portable_hd

Owner: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute - Human Genetics Informatics

Description: Perl utility to format UDF hard drive on Linux for portable use across Linux, Mac, and Windows

Created: 2014-10-01 15:55:01.0

Updated: 2016-03-12 07:57:17.0

Pushed: 2014-10-04 00:37:38.0

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Size: 160

Language: Perl

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mkfs_udf_portable_hd

Formats and partitions a portable hard drive with the UDF filesystem, for use as a portable drive that can be accessed from Linux, Mac, and Windows systems.

This script may be useful to you if you have a need for a portable hard drive that can be accessed from multiple platforms and supports large files (FAT32 works well but has a maximum 4GB file size). It now supports newer portable hard drives with 4096 bytes per physical sector.

mkfs_udf_portable_hd.pl requires either the mkudffs (Linux) or newfs_udf (BSD / Darwin / Mac OS X) utility to actually create the filesystem. On Ubuntu Linux, this is provided by the udftools package.

This work is based on the udfhd.pl script by Pieter Wuille. For more information on why this script is needed, please refer to his excellent blog post on the topic.

Copyright note

The usage of a range of years within a copyright statement contained within this distribution should be interpreted as being equivalent to a list of years including the first and last year specified and all consecutive years between them. For example, a copyright statement that reads Copyright (c) 2005, 2007- 2009, 2011-2012' should be interpreted as being identical to a statement that readsCopyright (c) 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012' and a copyright statement that reads Copyright (c) 2005-2012' should be interpreted as being identical to a statement that readsCopyright (c) 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012'.”