Daniel Baumann

About

dosfstools contains utilities for making and checking MS-DOS FAT filesystems.

The dosfstools package includes the mkdosfs (aka mkfs.dos and mkfs.vfat) and dosfsck (aka fsck.msdos and fsck.vfat) utilities, which respectively make and check MS-DOS FAT filesystems on hard drives or on floppies.

This version uses the enhanced boot sector/superblock format of DOS 3.3+ as well as provides a default dummy boot sector code.

dosfstools is currently maintained by Daniel Baumann mail@daniel-baumann.ch, dba on irc.oftc.net.

Current Version

Date	Version	Files	Notes
2013-03-01	3.0.16	dosfstools-3.0.16.tar.gz dosfstools-3.0.16.tar.gz.sig dosfstools-3.0.16.tar.xz dosfstools-3.0.16.tar.xz.sig	Bugfixes in dosfslabel.

Manpages

HTML (FIXME)
PDF
Text

Packages

Users of the following distributions (alphabetically sorted) can install dosfstools 3.x with the regular package management tools of their distribution:

Sources

Tarballs: http://daniel-baumann.ch/files/software/dosfstools/

Gitweb: http://daniel-baumann.ch/gitweb/?p=software/dosfstools.git

git clone git://daniel-baumann.ch/git/software/dosfstools.git
git clone http://daniel-baumann.ch/git/software/dosfstools.git
git clone https://daniel-baumann.ch/git/software/dosfstools.git

Version History

Date	Version	Files	Notes
2013-03-01	3.0.16	dosfstools-3.0.16.tar.gz dosfstools-3.0.16.tar.gz.sig dosfstools-3.0.16.tar.xz dosfstools-3.0.16.tar.xz.sig	Bugfixes in dosfslabel.
2013-02-21	3.0.15	dosfstools-3.0.15.tar.gz dosfstools-3.0.15.tar.gz.sig dosfstools-3.0.15.tar.xz dosfstools-3.0.15.tar.xz.sig	Bugfixes for device detection, root directory allocation, and messages about unicode filenames.
2013-01-23	3.0.14	dosfstools-3.0.14.tar.gz dosfstools-3.0.14.tar.gz.sig dosfstools-3.0.14.tar.xz dosfstools-3.0.14.tar.xz.sig	Option for bootsector read-only check.
2012-06-30	3.0.13	dosfstools-3.0.13.tar.gz dosfstools-3.0.13.tar.gz.sig dosfstools-3.0.13.tar.xz dosfstools-3.0.13.tar.xz.sig	Bugfix in dosfslabel.
2011-10-29	3.0.12	dosfstools-3.0.12.tar.gz dosfstools-3.0.12.tar.gz.sig dosfstools-3.0.12.tar.bz2 dosfstools-3.0.12.tar.bz2.sig	Bugfix in sector number calculations, bugfix in overflow of reclaims.
2010-12-24	3.0.11	dosfstools-3.0.11.tar.gz dosfstools-3.0.11.tar.gz.sig dosfstools-3.0.11.tar.bz2 dosfstools-3.0.11.tar.bz2.sig	Bugfix for s390x, better error message ifdevices can't be opened.
2010-09-23	3.0.10	dosfstools-3.0.10.tar.gz dosfstools-3.0.10.tar.gz.sig dosfstools-3.0.10.tar.bz2 dosfstools-3.0.10.tar.bz2.sig	Bugfix in LFN handling, fixes false positives with bad filenames.
2010-01-31	3.0.9	dosfstools-3.0.9.tar.gz dosfstools-3.0.9.tar.gz.sig dosfstools-3.0.9.tar.bz2 dosfstools-3.0.9.tar.bz2.sig	Bugfix in aligning.
2010-01-23	3.0.8	dosfstools-3.0.8.tar.gz dosfstools-3.0.8.tar.gz.sig dosfstools-3.0.8.tar.bz2 dosfstools-3.0.8.tar.bz2.sig	Aligning structures to cluster boundaries, 64bit and crosscompile fixes.
2009-12-24	3.0.7	dosfstools-3.0.7.tar.gz dosfstools-3.0.7.tar.gz.sig dosfstools-3.0.7.tar.bz2 dosfstools-3.0.7.tar.bz2.sig	Bugfix in dosfslabel, cleanups for FORTIFY_SOURCE.
2009-10-04	3.0.6	dosfstools-3.0.6.tar.gz dosfstools-3.0.6.tar.gz.sig dosfstools-3.0.6.tar.bz2 dosfstools-3.0.6.tar.bz2.sig	Bugfix in dosfsck on big-endian systems, bugfix in dosfck cluster handling.
2009-07-27	3.0.5	dosfstools-3.0.5.tar.gz dosfstools-3.0.5.tar.gz.sig dosfstools-3.0.5.tar.bz2 dosfstools-3.0.5.tar.bz2.sig	Bugfix and cleanup for VFAT patent avoidance kernel patch.
2009-07-21	3.0.4	dosfstools-3.0.4.tar.gz dosfstools-3.0.4.tar.gz.sig dosfstools-3.0.4.tar.bz2 dosfstools-3.0.4.tar.bz2.sig	Compatible with VFAT patent avoidance kernel patch, bugfix in dosfsck repair mode.
2009-05-18	3.0.3	dosfstools-3.0.3.tar.gz dosfstools-3.0.3.tar.gz.sig dosfstools-3.0.3.tar.bz2 dosfstools-3.0.3.tar.bz2.sig	Supporting limited-memory embedded systems.
2009-02-28	3.0.2	dosfstools-3.0.2.tar.gz dosfstools-3.0.2.tar.gz.sig dosfstools-3.0.2.tar.bz2 dosfstools-3.0.2.tar.bz2.sig	Fixes rare dosfsck corruption.
2008-11-23	3.0.1	dosfstools-3.0.1.tar.gz dosfstools-3.0.1.tar.gz.sig dosfstools-3.0.1.tar.bz2 dosfstools-3.0.1.tar.bz2.sig	Improves dosfsck cluster handling, fixes timing issues.
2008-09-29	3.0.0	dosfstools-3.0.0.tar.gz dosfstools-3.0.0.tar.gz.sig dosfstools-3.0.0.tar.bz2 dosfstools-3.0.0.tar.bz2.sig	Initial release of revived upstream.

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