Bug 36637 - mkdosfs or the kernel or both are horked
Summary: mkdosfs or the kernel or both are horked
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: dosfstools
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Preston Brown
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Reported: 2001-04-19 12:12 UTC by Alan Cox
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-07-06 14:37:10 UTC
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Description Alan Cox 2001-04-19 12:12:13 UTC 
% mkdosfs
Bad address
(strace it and you'll see what its doing!)

% mkdosfs /dev/hda1
% mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt
[Reports no DOS fs there]

If I then boot DOS 6.21 and use the DOSfs it is seen but corrupts itself
rapidly making me suspect it was created incorrectly.
Comment 1 Preston Brown 2001-07-06 15:25:05 UTC 
bug #1 was a bug in argument parsing I have just fixed.

Can't duplicate bug #2 with kernel 2.4.2-2 and newer dosfstools 2.7 that I have just 
packaged, so I am going to assume the problem has been rectified with this much 
newer codebase.
Comment 2 Alan Cox 2001-07-06 15:48:08 UTC 
Cool, I'll rerun the test cases I have (DOS 6.21 is #1 and the scond test case
is HP digital cameras).once I see the package out
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