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It is checked by fsck.fat and there is even (unit) test that fsck.fat can repair media type descriptor in first cluster in file allocation table. If fsck.fat is not able...

Thank you! Now I see where is the issue. fsck.fat code checks that first fat cluster contains valid media type description. But it does not check if this media type...

Hello! I'm not sure if mkfs.fat should try to find all possible fs magic sequences and erase them. mkfs.fat formats medium to be valid (and clean) FAT filesystem. What are...

Why this option is useful for mkfs.fat? If script does not want output then it can throw it away via redirection to /dev/null. And 1:1 compatibility with mke2fs does not...

Hello! Whole dosfstools code expects that int type has at least 32-bit range. I know that C standard specifies minimal 16-bit depth, but I do not know if it makes...

Also, please put your name and your valid email address into git commits. I'm not happy with merging or accepting changes from anonymous people without any contact option. dosfstools is...

> Thanks for the reply! I was looking through the code and also saw `off_t`, but I realised that this is not a problem on 32-bit systems due to `AC_SYS_LARGEFILE`...

@luzemario: Has FreeDOS/SvarDOS patch for dosfstools's mkfs.fat which can add custom boot code to FAT boot sector?

> No. I mean to put FreeDOS/SvarDOS bootsector verbatim on the disk And obviously this cannot be done due to this open issue.

There is patch from Nokia https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/issues/56 which implements custom memory allocator which should reduce memory size. Also there is pull request https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/pull/2 which uses mmap instead of copying data into...