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-8.1 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/releases/download/v4.1/dosfstools-4.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 07a1050db1a898e9a2e03b0c4569c4bd
Download size: 176 KB
Estimated disk space required: 2.9 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/dosfstools
Enable the following option in the kernel configuration and recompile the kernel:
File systems --->
<DOS/FAT/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=/ \ --enable-compat-symlinks \ --mandir=/usr/share/man \ --docdir=/usr/share/doc/dosfstools-4.1 && 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.
Last updated on 2017-08-24 18:56:23 -0700