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Installed Programs:
fatlabel, fsck.fat, and mkfs.fat
Introduction to dosfstools
The dosfstools package contains various utilities for use with the FAT family of file systems.
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Note
Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if LFS or dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the books.
Package Information
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Download (HTTP): https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/releases/download/v4.2/dosfstools-4.2.tar.gz
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Download MD5 sum: 49c8e457327dc61efab5b115a27b087a
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Download size: 314 KB
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Estimated disk space required: 4.5 MB (with tests)
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Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU
Kernel Configuration
Enable the following option in the kernel configuration and recompile the kernel if you need to mount a FAT-family filesystem:
File systems ---> DOS/FAT/EXFAT/NT Filesystems ---> < /*/M> MSDOS fs support [MSDOS_FS] <*/M> VFAT (Windows-95) fs support [VFAT_FS]
Note that CONFIG_MSDOS_FS deliberately
does not support long file names. CONFIG_VFAT_FS should be used instead unless you
really want to enforce the DOS-style “8.3” file names.
You can mount a FAT-family filesystem once the kernel supports it. If you don't need to create, check, or relabel a FAT-family system, you may skip this package.
Installation of dosfstools
Install dosfstools by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--enable-compat-symlinks \
--mandir=/usr/share/man \
--docdir=/usr/share/doc/dosfstools-4.2 &&
make
To test the results, issue: make check.
Now, as the root user:
make install
Command Explanations
--enable-compat-symlinks:
This switch creates the dosfsck,
dosfslabel, fsck.msdos, fsck.vfat, mkdosfs, mkfs.msdos, and mkfs.vfat symlinks required by some programs.