dosfstools Changelog

What's new in dosfstools 3.0.27

Dec 15, 2014
  • fatlabel did not recognize long file names and mistook long file name segments in the root directory for labels. This caused output of garbage when asked to print the label and damage to the root directory (loss of long file name after fsck) when used to set the label.
  • A fsck.fat check introduced in 3.0.26 triggered use of uninitialized fields in the constructed root directory entry, which randomly caused the code checking file names to consider the empty "file name" of the root directory to be bad:
  • $ /sbin/fsck.fat -y bad.img
  • fsck.fat 3.0.26 (2014-03-07)
  • Bad short file name ().
  • Auto-renaming it.
  • Renamed to
  • bad.img: 14 files, 19388/403266 clusters
  • And finally fsck.fat will not print the version string anymore every time the -v option is encountered.

New in dosfstools 3.0.26 (Nov 11, 2014)

  • Fsck fixes errors on filesystems suffering from frequent power losses.

New in dosfstools 3.0.25 (Jan 18, 2014)

  • This release fixes fsck errors on 64-bit platforms.

New in dosfstools 3.0.24 (Nov 23, 2013)

  • Fixed dosfsck on big endian platforms.

New in dosfstools 3.0.23 (Oct 18, 2013)

  • This version corrects clustersize in order to fix issues with EFI System Partitions.

New in dosfstools 3.0.20 (Jun 13, 2013)

  • This version updates default sectors per cluster for FAT32.

New in dosfstools 3.0.19 (Jun 12, 2013)

  • This version fixes a segfault with fortify.

New in dosfstools 3.0.18 (Jun 6, 2013)

  • Proper naming for tools, and initial internationalization for man pages.

New in dosfstools 3.0.17 (May 30, 2013)

  • This version adds bugfixes in dosfslabel.

New in dosfstools 3.0.16 (Mar 2, 2013)

  • Bugfixes in dosfslabel.

New in dosfstools 3.0.15 (Feb 22, 2013)

  • This version adds bugfixes for device detection, root directory allocation, and messages about unicode filenames.

New in dosfstools 3.0.10 (Sep 13, 2010)

  • LFN handling and false positives with bad filenames were corrected.

New in dosfstools 3.0.9 (Feb 1, 2010)

  • bugfix in aligning

New in dosfstools 3.0.8 (Jan 29, 2010)

  • Aligning structures to cluster boundaries, 64bit and cross-compile fixes.