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Installed Programs:
fatlabel, fsck.fat, and mkfs.fat
The dosfstools package contains various utilities for use with the FAT family of file systems.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 12.1 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/releases/download/v4.2/dosfstools-4.2.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 49c8e457327dc61efab5b115a27b087a
Download size: 314 KB
Estimated disk space required: 4.5 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU
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
unsupport 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.
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
--enable-compat-symlinks:
This switch creates the dosfsck,
dosfslabel, fsck.msdos, fsck.vfat, mkdosfs, mkfs.msdos, and mkfs.vfat symlinks required by some programs.