are utilities to create, check and label (MS-DOS) FAT filesystems.
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| | dosfstools 4.2 - released 2021-01-31 |
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| | fatlabel now accepts two new options. When given the -i or --volume-id option, |
| | fatlabel changes to an alternate mode where it displays or changes the volume |
| | serial number instead of the volume label. With the -r or --reset option, it |
| | will remove the label or (in the alternate mode) generate a new volume serial |
| | number. |
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| | The user prompting for interactive fsck has been overhauled. Now it will |
| | directly react to a pressed key without the user having to additionally press |
| | enter. The changed prompting is also consistently repeating the prompt when |
| | invalid input is given. |
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| | The legacy check whether it is running on Atari hardware when compiled for 68k |
| | in order to automatically switch to Atari mode is now disabled by default. It |
| | can be compiled in with the new configure switch --enable-atari-check. |
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| | Both mkfs and fsck now have a new option --variant=TYPE where TYPE can be |
| | 'standard' or 'atari' to explicitly select one of those variants rather than |
| | having to toggle between them with -A. |
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| | fsck, mkfs and fatlabel were fixed to process volume label correctly. Previously |
| | there were many issues during processing labels. Fixes issues are: leading byte |
| | 0xE5 of root label needs to be handled in special way, label cannot contain some |
| | special characters, label itself is stored according to the current DOS codepage |
| | which may be specified by a new --codepage option. fatlabel now reads volume |
| | label only from the root directory to be compatible with existing systems like |
| | MS-DOS 5.00, MS-DOS 6.22, MS-DOS 7.10, Windows 98, Windows XP, Windows 7, 8, 10 |
| | and also with the Linux mlabel from mtools project. fsck was extended to fix |
| | incorrect volume labels and ensure that volume label from the root directory is |
| | same as the volume label stored in boot sector. Old versions of dosfslabel read |
| | label only from the boot sector. So with all these changes fsck now ensures |
| | compatibility with both MS-DOS/Windows and old Linux/dosfslabel world. |
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| | fsck now allows spaces in the middle of SFNs. Previous behavior (when spaces |
| | are disallowed) can be achieved by a new option -S. |
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| | Both mkfs and fsck now have fixed Year 2038 Bug. mkfs may still set filesystem |
| | timestamp to 1980-01-01 00:00:00 (beginning of the FAT era) in case operating |
| | system has Year 2038 Bug and cannot provide current time in time_t variable. |
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| | Some memory leaks were fixed in fatlabel and fsck to make valgrind happy. |
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| | Processing of command line arguments in all tools were fixed to ensure that |
| | invalid options are not accepted anymore and proper error message is thrown |
| | instead of trying to continue with uninitialized or undefined value. |
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| | In fsck and fatlabel were fixed issues that faulty filesystems were able to |
| | trigger integer overflows during reading them. |
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| | mkfs now has a new option --offset for specifying offset at which filesystem |
| | would start. This is useful when formatting FAT filesystem on disk image with |
| | MBR table without need to use loopback kernel driver with partx to access only |
| | specific partition. |
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| | All tools now can be compiled without iconv library and in this case they |
| | support only CP850 codepage which is integrated into tools. This internal |
| | CP850 codepage can be used also when tools were compiled with iconv library |
| | which do not support CP850 (e.g. iconv from GNU libc without installed gconv |
| | shared libraries). |
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| | Manual pages were updated to clarify some ambiguous options and descriptions. |
| | fatlabel has a new section with details about volume label and codepage issues. |
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| | mkfs now has a new option --mbr which fills (fake) MBR table with one partition |
| | which spans whole disk device. This (fake) MBR table is needed only for |
| | non-removable disks used on Microsoft Windows systems and only when formatting |
| | whole unpartitioned disk. |
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| | mkfs now calculates CHS geometry according to the SD Card Part 2 File System |
| | Specification. For SD cards with more than 256MB capacity is this new CHS |
| | calculation same as CHS calculation defined for hard disks via LBA-Assist |
| | Translation. So CHS geometry calculation in mkfs is now compatible with both |
| | SD Card specification and also LBA-Assist Translation. Moreover mkfs now has |
| | also a new option -g for specifying CHS geometry manually if it is needed for |
| | compatibility with some SD card readers. CHS geometry is part of FAT boot |
| | sector which mkfs.fat must fill. |
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| | fsck now checks for DOS Clean Shutdown bit and marks filesystem as clean after |
| | successful run. This is for compatibility with Microsft Windows 98 and also with |
| | Windows NT-based variants. |
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| | Dependency on systemd/udev was completely removed from mkfs tool. But there is |
| | no lost or removed functionality. Existing systemd/udev code was rewritten to |
| | directly access sysfs and new implementation has less lines of code as previous |
| | implementation which used systemd/udev libraries. |
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| | mkfs was fixed to setup FAT32 backup boot sector correctly. |
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| | mkfs's -D option (BIOS drive number) was relaxed to support also higher level |
| | hard disk and floppy devices (second, third, ...). |
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| | fsck now preserve reserved fields in info sector. They are used by other systems |
| | (e.g. FSIBOOT stage of lDOS boot32.asm), hence why are reserved. |
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| | fsck was extended to check and fix that first two entires in directory |
| | structures are . and .. |
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| | mkfs now aligns total number of sectors to be multiple of the value of sectors |
| | per track which is stored in FAT boot sector. This requirement is needed by DOS |
| | systems and also by Linux FAT tools from mtools project. Alignment can be turned |
| | off by -a option. |
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| | mkfs is now able to calculate FAT32 cluster size also for disks which have |
| | sector size different than 512 bytes. Note that this calculation is not optimal. |
| | It is just first step which ensures that mkfs does not fail during formatting |
| | Native 4K disks. |
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| | mkfs cluster calculation was fixed to correctly handle differences between |
| | FAT12 and FAT16 variants. mkfs now explicitly disallow to create FAT filesystem |
| | with 4085 or 4086 clusters because Windows fastfat.sys detects such filesystem |
| | as FAT12 but Linux msdos.ko/vfat.ko detects it as FAT16. mkfs now avoids this |
| | situation to happen by fully automatic increasing or decreasing cluster size. |
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| | fsck now has a new option -F which can be used to specify FAT table used for |
| | reading whole FAT filesystem. It can be useful in situation when user wants |
| | to do recovery and filesystem repairing from second FAT table independently |
| | of what fsck thinks that is the best. |
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| | fsck was extended to try fixing first FAT cluster but only when -F option is |
| | specified. Previously when first FAT cluster was broken, fsck just printed |
| | error: "Both FATs appear to be corrupt. Giving up." and failed. |
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| | fatlabel was fixed to not call parts of fsck procedure and to not print |
| | warning or log messages on stdout as it conflicts with expected label |
| | output on stdout. |
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| | A test suite was heavily extended and now it also checks that fsck repairs |
| | broken filesystem into the expected state. |
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| | List of fixed issues: |
| | https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=803391 |
| | https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/issues/13 |
| | https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/issues/18 |
| | https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/issues/22 |
| | https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/issues/29 |
| | https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/issues/32 |
| | https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/issues/38 |
| | https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/issues/39 |
| | https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/issues/43 |
| | https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/issues/45 |
| | https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/issues/52 |
| | https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/issues/53 |
| | https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/issues/54 |
| | https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/issues/64 |
| | https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/issues/66 |
| | https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/issues/69 |
| | https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/issues/70 |
| | https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/issues/74 |
| | https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/issues/88 |
| | https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/issues/99 |
| | https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/issues/111 |
| | https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/issues/139 |
| | https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/issues/151 |
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| dosfstools 4.1 - released 2017-01-24 | | dosfstools 4.1 - released 2017-01-24 |
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| A test suite is now included and can be run with "make check". The test suite | | A test suite is now included and can be run with "make check". The test suite |
| requires xxd from the vim distribution to recreate image files from hexdumps and | | requires xxd from the vim distribution to recreate image files from hexdumps and |
| also adds a dependency on automake 1.11 or later for building from sources other | | also adds a dependency on automake 1.11 or later for building from sources other |
| than the release tarball. | | than the release tarball. |
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| Now the default for mkfs for filesystems smaller than 512 MB is 64 heads / 32 | | Now the default for mkfs for filesystems smaller than 512 MB is 64 heads / 32 |
| sectors to make the defaults a bit more in line with the old defaults used up to | | sectors to make the defaults a bit more in line with the old defaults used up to |
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