%general-entities; ]> dosfstools The dosfstools package contains various utilities for use with the FAT family of file systems. &lfs121_checked; Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &dosfstools-md5sum; Download size: &dosfstools-size; Estimated disk space required: &dosfstools-buildsize; Estimated build time: &dosfstools-time; Enable the following option in the kernel configuration and recompile the kernel if you need to mount a FAT-family filesystem: 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. FAT Support in Kernel Install dosfstools by running the following commands: ./configure --prefix=/usr \ --enable-compat-symlinks \ --mandir=/usr/share/man \ --docdir=/usr/share/doc/dosfstools-&dosfstools-version; && 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. Installed Programs fatlabel, fsck.fat, and mkfs.fat Short Descriptions fatlabel sets or gets a MS-DOS filesystem label from a given device fatlabel fsck.fat checks and repairs MS-DOS filesystems fsck.fat mkfs.fat creates an MS-DOS filesystem under Linux mkfs.fat