Bug 1527003

Summary: mkfs fat with blocksize:512 does not set the block size correctly
Product: [Community] Virtualization Tools Reporter: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
Component: libguestfsAssignee: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
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Description Richard W.M. Jones 2017-12-18 10:22:16 UTC
(This bug was found by Xianghua Chen)

Description of problem:

mkfs fat does not set the block size correctly:

$ rm test.img
$ truncate -s 100M test.img
$ guestfish -a test.img \
    run : part-disk /dev/sda mbr : mkfs fat /dev/sda1 blocksize:512 : mount /dev/sda1 / : statvfs /
...
bsize: 2048

bsize is expected to be 512 because we set blocksize:512 when creating
the filesystem.

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

libguestfs 1.37.35

How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. See reproducer above.

Additional info:

We're adding ’-b 512’ to the command line, but that option to mkfs.fat
sets the backup boot sector location, so that's completely wrong.

This is a bug introduced when we fixed the following bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=599464

Comment 1 Red Hat Bugzilla 2025-10-17 00:10:37 UTC
This product has been discontinued or is no longer tracked in Red Hat Bugzilla.

Comment 2 Alasdair Kergon 2025-10-17 12:52:13 UTC
Reopening because Virtualization Tools has not been discontinued.