Bug 688128

Summary: dosfslabel shows problem when try to label it Seek to 114116076544:Invalid argument
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Jan Ščotka <jscotka>
Component: dosfstoolsAssignee: Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: BaseOS QE - Apps <qe-baseos-apps>
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Priority: high    
Version: 6.1CC: bnater, jskarvad, rvokal
Target Milestone: rc   
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Fixed In Version: dosfstools-3.0.9-4.el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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The dosfslabel utility displayed an error message when labeling the FAT32 file system due to some of its internal structures being initialized incorrectly. The dosfslabel utility now reads the FAT file system first, which fixes the problem.
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: 693662 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2011-12-06 09:56:34 UTC Type: ---
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Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2011-03-16 12:48:30 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated
in the current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to
address this request at this time. Red Hat invites you to
ask your support representative to propose this request, if
appropriate and relevant, in the next release of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux. If you would like it considered as an
exception in the current release, please ask your support
representative.
Comment 3 Jaroslav Škarvada 2011-04-05 09:07:20 UTC 
It seems to be broken for a while on FAT32. Cloned to all Fedoras and sent patch upstream.

Reproducer:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/img bs=512 count=200k
# mkdosfs -F 32 /tmp/img
# dosfslabel /tmp/img test
Comment 4 Jaroslav Škarvada 2011-04-05 09:08:21 UTC 
Created attachment 489943 [details]
Proposed patch
Comment 5 Branislav Náter 2011-07-13 08:00:53 UTC 
Bugfix was verified on dosfstools-3.0.9-4.el6 package on all supported
architectures.

dosfslabel is able to label dos filesystem.
Comment 6 Eliska Slobodova 2011-07-18 14:50:25 UTC 
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    New Contents:
The dosfslabel utility displayed an error message when labeling the FAT32 file system due to some of its internal structures being initialized incorrectly. The dosfslabel utility now reads the FAT file system first, which fixes the problem.
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2011-12-06 09:56:34 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1552.html