The dosfstools package contains various utilities for use with the FAT family of file systems.
Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the book.
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: 3.5 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/dosfstools
Enable the following option in the kernel configuration and recompile the kernel:
File systems --->
<DOS/FAT/EXFAT/NT Filesystems --->
<*/M> MSDOS fs support [CONFIG_MSDOS_FS]
<*/M> VFAT (Windows-95) fs support [CONFIG_VFAT_FS]
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
This package does not come with a test suite.
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.