Bug 54974

Summary:	fsck.vfat doesn't appear to like volume labels
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Ben Levenson <benl>
Component:	dosfstools	Assignee:	Matt Wilson <msw>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Ben Levenson 2001-10-23 21:16:27 UTC

Description of Problem:
fsck.msdos appears to hang while checking images/devices that are created
w/ the volume-name option of mkdosfs (-n).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
dosfstools-2.7-1

How Reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/dos.img count=10 bs=1M
2. /sbin/mkdosfs -n test /tmp/dos.img
3. /sbin/fsck.vfat /tmp/dos.img
4. watch the process consume 90% of your cpu resources for 5+ minutes 
   before killing it.
I also reproduced this behavior w/ a floppy disk on my i686 workstation.
The floppy created w/ "mkdosfs -n test /dev/fd0" never completed the 
fsck, but a different floppy created w/out "-n test" fsck'd in a few 
seconds.

Comment 1 Ben Levenson 2003-10-30 04:37:53 UTC

fixed in dosfstools-2.8-1 (ftp.redhat.com:/pub/redhat/linux/7.3)