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shield Recommended update for dosfstools
SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP3-2022-84

This update for dosfstools fixes the following issues: - To be able to create filesystems compatible with previous version, add -g command line option to mkfs (bsc#1188401) - BREAKING CHANGES: After fixing of bsc#1172863 in the last update, mkfs started to create different images than before. Applications that depend on exact FAT file format (e. g. embedded systems) may be broken in two ways: * The introduction of the alignment may create smaller images than before, with a different positions of important image elements. It can break existing software that expect images in doststools <= 4.1 style. To work around these problems, use "-a" command line argument. * The new image may contain a different geometry values. Geometry sensitive applications expecting doststools <= 4.1 style images can fails to accept different geometry values. There is no direct work around for this problem. But you can take the old image, use "file -s $IMAGE", check its "sectors/track" and "heads", and use them in the newly introduced "-g" command line argument.

  • Release Date
    Jan 17 2022
  • References
    Bugzilla: 1172863, 1188401
  • Type
    recommended
  • Severity
    moderate

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Basesystem Module 15.3 aarch64
  • Packages
    dosfstools
    Utilities for Making and Checking MS-DOS FAT File Systems on Linux
    4.1-3.6.1 lock rpm lock src
Basesystem Module 15.3 ppc64le
  • Packages
    dosfstools
    Utilities for Making and Checking MS-DOS FAT File Systems on Linux
    4.1-3.6.1 lock rpm lock src
Basesystem Module 15.3 s390x
  • Packages
    dosfstools
    Utilities for Making and Checking MS-DOS FAT File Systems on Linux
    4.1-3.6.1 lock rpm lock src
Basesystem Module 15.3 x86_64
  • Packages
    dosfstools
    Utilities for Making and Checking MS-DOS FAT File Systems on Linux
    4.1-3.6.1 lock rpm lock src