Re: Format a volume in UEFI (or delete all files)

[Michael Zimmermann <sigmaepsilon92@gmail.com>]

depending on his use case it can be unnecessary to do a low level FS format
though(he said that he just wants to delete all files).

It can also become problematic if you consider that the original filesystem
doesn't have to be FAT.

Thanks
Michael

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 7:46 PM, Richardson, Brian <
brian.richardson@intel.com> wrote:

> There is an effort to move these tools to EDK II. More news as it happens.
>
> Thanks ... br
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>
> On 10/12/2016 10:34 AM, GN Keshava wrote:
> > Thanks Laszlo, I'll check it out.
> >
> > I think I need to combine the LS implementation and RM implementation,
> > isn't it? So there is no "format this volume" function or command
> > exists, right?
>
> The commands do exist. But they're not in Tianocore, and have non-BSD
> license, owned by Intel not UEFI Forum.
>
> http://www.intel.com/technology/efi/agree_diskutil.htm
> https://firmwaresecurity.com/2015/09/26/intel-efi-disk-utilities/
>
> But the license is not BSD. It even has a password-protected ZIP, making
> you read the outer zip's readme for the password.
>
> I presume whoever wrote this code at Intel may've read the sources to the
> Microsoft FAT Windows file system code, thus the harsh license.
>
> But now that Microsoft has relicensed the UEFI FAT FS driver, has anyone
> considered relicense the code to these tools too?
>
> Lee
> (former Microsoft file system PM)
>
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