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Unfortunately, the last release of dosfstools had a stupid bug in dosfsck introduced by the VFAT patent avoidance patch that can cause data loss (see Debian bug #538758 for more information). Todays release of version 3.0.5 fixes this.
Source tarballs can be downloaded as usual from its homepage.
In May, I have uploaded dosfstools version 3.0.3 that added support for Xilinx's Microblaze processor, which I forgot to blog about.
Today, I have uploaded version 3.0.4 that fixes a problem when running on Linux with the VFAT patent avoidance patch and fixes a bug in dosfsck.
Source tarballs can be downloaded as usual from its homepage.
I have uploaded dosfstools version 3.0.2 that contains another few fixes. Source tarballs can be downloaded as usual from its homepage.
The aim for 3.0 was to unify all the patches out there that have been accumulated over the years. As this is mostly completed now, I will soon start doing real work which will lead to dosfstools 3.1 eventually.
I have uploaded dosfstools version 3.0.1 that contains another few fixes. Source tarballs can be downloaded as usual from its homepage.
dosfstools is a collection of three utilities for making and checking FAT/MS-DOS filesystems:
Unfortunately, dosfstools are without an active upstream maintainer for a couple of years. After I took over the package in Debian in June, I'm now also taking over upstream.
Version 3.0.0 includes all accumulated patches from Debian, Fedora, Gentoo and Suse together with some reordering of the sources. Packages have been uploaded to Debian sid, source tarballs can be downloaded from its new home.
