Bug 55267 – boot hangs checking vfat paritions

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Bug 55267 - boot hangs checking vfat paritions

Summary:	boot hangs checking vfat paritions

Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	dosfstools (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.2
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Peter Vrabec
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Reported:	2001-10-28 14:55 EST by Alessandro Pisani
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2006-08-04 16:19:47 EDT
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this fixes the "Warning! FAT32 code is still ALPHA!" message printed on boot (559 bytes, patch) 2001-10-29 02:30 EST, Alessandro Pisani	no flags	Details \| Diff
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Description Alessandro Pisani 2001-10-28 14:55:22 EST

I have a vfat entry in my /etc/fstab as follows:
/dev/hda7       /mnt/windisk    vfat     exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1

booting RH 7.2 with this fstab will cause a warning message to appear
during the "Checking filesystems..." phase and then the boot to settle
until CTRL+C is pressed.
The warning message (issued by fsck, called by /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit) is:
"Warning! FAT32 support is still ALPHA"

The only workaround I found so far is to set the fs_passno field to 0,
as follows:
/dev/hda7       /mnt/windisk    vfat     exec,dev,suid,rw 1 0

disabling fsck for the partition, that is.


All this does NOT happen on RH 7.1 "Seawolf", which i use everyday,
mounting three or four VFAT disks.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2001-10-28 16:05:51 EST

Bug in dosfstools dosfsck, then.

Comment 2 Alessandro Pisani 2001-10-28 17:14:12 EST

Fixed: now it works for me.
Steps for fixing:
1: download and install RH 7.2 dosfstools SRPM (v. 2.7)
2: download source .tar.gz of dosfstools v. 2.83: modify .spec file to use 2.8
tar.gz and maintaining RH patches against 2.7 (they will work also with 2.8)
4: rebuild package and install it

Thanks for the hint :>

Comment 3 Alessandro Pisani 2001-10-28 17:18:39 EST

typo in my last comment: correct version is 2.8 _not_ 2.83
sorry

Comment 4 Alessandro Pisani 2001-10-29 02:30:13 EST

Created attachment 35361 [details]
this fixes the "Warning! FAT32 code is still ALPHA!" message printed on boot

Comment 5 Bill Nottingham 2006-08-04 16:19:47 EDT

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