Bug 823883

Summary:	virt-make-fs -t fat fails with an obscure error message
Product:	[Community] Virtualization Tools	Reporter:	Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
Component:	libguestfs	Assignee:	Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
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Description Richard W.M. Jones 2012-05-22 11:29:31 UTC

Description of problem:

I thought that 'fat' would be a valid filesystem type, but
apparently it's not:

$ virt-make-fs -t fat --partition=mbr libguestfs-1.18.0.tar.gz disk.img
Formatting 'disk.img', fmt=raw size=44308070 
mkfs: fat: /dev/vda1: mkfs.fat: No such file or directory at /usr/bin/virt-make-fs line 459.

(-t vfat works).  I think the error message could be improved.
Could we also have a way to detect what filesystems are supported
by various operations (eg. mount, mkfs, etc?)

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

1.18.0.

How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. As above.

Comment 1 Richard W.M. Jones 2012-05-24 11:31:34 UTC

Fixed upstream in commit 975a41db20eff2b5edf510f8a65005c915b21f27.