testing.md

Testing the filesystem

After you have created a sample disk image, you can now execute nuFAT and see if it works.

To do so, you need to provide a mounting point. You can either do this by creating a proper mounting point at mnt/myfusefat/ or creating a phony mounting point

Creating a proper mounting point(#proper)

You can create a "proper" mounting point in /mnt/ using

sudo mkdir -p /mnt/myfusefat

Warning

Doing this can cause nuFAT to crash as accessing /mnt/ requires elevated privileges. I therefore recomment you go and use a phony mounting point

Creating a phony mounting point(#phony)

You can also specify a directory as mount location which you as a regular user have access to without the need for any privileges.

To do so, create a new directory and pass it to nuFAT.

mdkir ./myfatfs/

cargo run -- $DISK_IMAGE_PATH ./myfatfs/

The program should then execute.

Accessing the filesystem

No matter what mount option you use, you can access the filesystem by opening a terminal and cd-ing in it.

cd ./myfatfs/

You can then try performing file operations as you are used to. If you have followed my guide on how to create a disk image, the file system is empty as it was created using /dev/zero.