Bug 1053138

Summary:	Inconsistancy regarding labeling between dosfslabel and mkfs.fat and documentation
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	mulhern <amulhern>
Component:	dosfstools	Assignee:	Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad>
Status:	CLOSED EOL	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	20	CC:	jskarvad
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Description mulhern 2014-01-14 18:11:41 UTC

Description of problem:

1) Not setting label via mkfs.fat and reading label w/dosfslabel yields string "NO NAME" but documentation says default is no label. So, either documentation
is wrong or dosfslabel prefers returning "NO NAME" to returning an empty string,
which is wrong, because "NO NAME" may be legitimate label and
it is not the same as no label.
2) If I set label to "start" via mkfs.fat and I read the label via dosfslabel the result is "START", i.e., capitalized. But, if I set the label via dosfslabel to "an fs", and I read the label via dosfslabel the result is "an fs", i.e., not capitalized.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Installed w/ yum, so here's the yum info.

[root@localhost blivet]# yum info dosfstoolsLoaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit
Installed Packages
Name : dosfstools
Arch : x86_64
Version : 3.0.22
Release : 3.fc19
Size : 243 k
Repo : installed
From repo : updates
Summary : Utilities for making and checking MS-DOS FAT filesystems on Linux
URL : http://www.daniel-baumann.ch/software/dosfstools/
License : GPLv3+
Description : The dosfstools package includes the mkdosfs and dosfsck utilities,
: which respectively make and check MS-DOS FAT filesystems on hard
: drives or on floppies.

How reproducible:

Consistantly.

Steps to Reproduce:

Description of problem should be enough.

Actual results:

Inconsistancy wrt. labeling among the dosfstools

Expected results:

Consistancy wrt. labeling among the dosfstools

Additional info:

None

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