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Also there is missing a tool which can change/extend maximal number of entries in the FAT12/16 root directory.

Yes, but it is not part of dosfstools, depends on libparted, does not support FAT12 and does not support changing number of entries in root directory.

Windows's `vol` and `dir` commands print serial number (volume-id) with dash. Also UUIDs in /etc/fstab are written with dashes. I'm for unification of usage of FAT volume-ids between Linux tools....

Do you know what is windows chkdsk doing with directory which has following entries in this order? valid, null, valid, valid. Does it _restore_ null entry as non-null? Or it...

Can you explain what is the issue?

Ok, now I see, this is for sure error. Are you able to provide that broken disk image dump? You should be able to upload packed disk image into .gz...

Microsoft fatgen103.doc specification says: > **Short Directory Entries** > Short names are limited to 8 characters followed by an optional period (.) and extension of up to 3 characters. The...

Ehm? mkfs.fat should erase everything which is stored on existing filesystem.

Hm... I'm not sure. `.` and `..` are strange file names. I would wait how kernel fs maintainers decide what to do with these filenames. And then implement _compatible_ behavior...

For `vfat.ko` there is already `uni_xlate` mount option and maybe this is the intended way how linux kernel expose these problematic filenames into vfs... just there is missing check that...