Friday, October 14, 2011
11:00 AM

Utilities for Making and Checking MS-DOS FAT Filesystems

The dosfstools package includes the mkdosfs (aka mkfs.dos and mkfs.vfat) and dosfsck (aka fsck.msdos and fsck.vfat) utilities, which respectively make and check MS-DOS FAT filesystems on hard drives or on floppies.

This version uses the enhanced boot sector/superblock format of DOS 3.3+ as well as provides a default dummy boot sector code.


mkdosfs:
mkdosfs is used to create an MS-DOS file system under Linux on a device (usually a disk partition). device is the special file corresponding to the device (e.g /dev/hdXX) block-count is the number of blocks on the device. If omitted, mkdosfs automatically determines the file system size.
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