How to use fstab-sync?

[David Zeuthen]

On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 04:27 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> Here we go, but it would be nice if someone can test it, before we merge
> it. I've removed the msdos format completely, we have only vfat now.
> 
> We also have a fssubtyp now, which can be 'fat12', 'fat16' or 'fat32'
> for vfat.

Just curious, who would use that?

> 
> 'NO NAME' is handled as an empty label now.
> 
> XP stores the label not in the superblock (That's why Thomas got the 'NO NAME').
> It creates a special entry in the root directory with the name and ignores
> the superblock if it finds the directory entry. If we find such a label, we
> do the same now.
> 

Neat.

> Note:
> If you change the FAT label with a _simple_ tools, but have a ATTR_LABEL in
> the root dir, HAL will ignore it and read the label from the directory.
> 
> David, it would be nice if you can check it with your bad floppy :)
> 

This breaks my good floppy; I'll mail you the image offlist.

> diff -u -r1.54 block_class_device.c

Please use the -p option when generating patches, it makes it a lot
easier to spot which functions changes apply to.

Thanks,
David

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