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<patchinfo incident="22274">
  <issue tracker="bnc" id="1172863">mkfs.fat fails to format 2G NVMe partition</issue>
  <issue tracker="bnc" id="1188401">dosfstools 4.1-lp152.4.3.1   sudo mkfs.vfat -v -F 32 "${DRIVE}"1 -n boot</issue>
  <packager>sbrabec</packager>
  <rating>moderate</rating>
  <category>recommended</category>
  <summary>Recommended update for dosfstools</summary>
  <description>This update for dosfstools fixes the following issues:

- To be able to create filesystems compatible with previous
  version, add -g command line option to mkfs (bsc#1188401)
- BREAKING CHANGES:
  After fixing of bsc#1172863 in the last update, mkfs started to
  create different images than before. Applications that depend on
  exact FAT file format (e. g. embedded systems) may be broken in
  two ways:
  * The introduction of the alignment may create smaller images
    than before, with a different positions of important image
    elements. It can break existing software that expect images in
    doststools &lt;= 4.1 style.
    To work around these problems, use "-a" command line argument.
  * The new image may contain a different geometry values. Geometry
    sensitive applications expecting doststools &lt;= 4.1 style images
    can fails to accept different geometry values.
    There is no direct work around for this problem. But you can
    take the old image, use "file -s $IMAGE", check its
    "sectors/track" and "heads", and use them in the newly
    introduced "-g" command line argument.
</description>
</patchinfo>

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