Issued:
2010-01-06
Updated:
2010-03-30

RHBA-2010:0007 - dosfstools bug fix update

Synopsis

dosfstools bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

An updated dosfstools package that fixes two bugs is now available.

Description

The dosfstools package includes the mkdosfs and dosfsck utilities, which respectively make and check File Allocation Table (FAT) file systems on hard drives or on floppies.

This updated package provides fixes for the following bugs:

  • when a FAT file system was created on a device-mapper device, if the drive geometry was not reported correctly to mkdosfs, the command printed it was "unable to get drive geometry" and was using the default drive geometry (255/63) instead. Because of an error, it did not, in fact, do this. Consequently, dosfslabel could not set a label for the newly-created file system. With this update, the error in the mkdosfs command was corrected: when the drive geometry is not correctly reported, mkdosfs now sets the drive geometry to the default values as per its message to STD OUT. Consequently, FAT file systems created with mkdosfs are now correct and dosfslabel can set its label. (BZ#249067)

  • although dosfstools contains ELF objects, the dosfstools-debuginfo package was empty. With this update the -debuginfo package contains valid debugging information as expected. (BZ#469842)

All dosfstools users should upgrade to this updated package, which resolves these issues.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at This content is not included.http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian5ppc
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems5s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5i386

Updated Packages

  • dosfstools-2.11-9.el5.i386.rpm
  • dosfstools-2.11-9.el5.ppc.rpm
  • dosfstools-2.11-9.el5.src.rpm
  • dosfstools-2.11-9.el5.ia64.rpm
  • dosfstools-2.11-9.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • dosfstools-2.11-9.el5.s390x.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information