Bug 823885

Summary:	virt-make-fs cannot create vfat filesystem containing filesystems with chinese characters
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 11:34:02 UTC

Description of problem:

$ mkdir testdata
$ touch testdata/马磊
$ sudo chown -R root.root testdata   # workaround for bug 584228
$ virt-make-fs -t vfat --partition=mbr testdata disk.img
Formatting 'disk.img', fmt=raw size=292864 
virt-make-fs: error copying contents into filesystem
An error here usually means that the program did not estimate the
filesystem size correctly.  Please read the BUGS section of the manpage.
tar_in: tar subcommand failed on directory: /: tar: ./\351\251\254\347\243\212: Cannot open: Invalid argument
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors at /usr/bin/virt-make-fs line 512, <PIPE> line 1.

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

1.18.0

How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. See above.

Comment 1 Richard W.M. Jones 2012-05-24 13:42:13 UTC

Worked around by adding utf8 option in virt-make-fs
(commit d5d9ceee8b56a10761e207ad9970ebf704fc46e8).