Package: dosfstools Version: 4.2-1.2 Severity: important Tags: upstream X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Maintainer, The primary case of dosfsck is repairing damage due to power loss. This means the most important checks are these: * Check for damaged FAT due to power loss * Check for lost clusters (possibly file not saved to directory) * Check for extra clusters (probably file grew) However, the damaged FAT check is completely broken in dosfsck. I haven't been able to tell exactly what the problem is, but the sector-by-sector comparitor is definitely not present. It's trying some sense over the whole FAT that doesn't actually work. This is a unit test for a more powerful algorithm that weighs the FAT sectors, but it definitely displays the problem. dosfsck guesses wrong and thinks the first FAT is correct without prompting. In any case, dosfsck completely can't handle the situation and even if it got to the prompt case, there's just not enough information to proceed. https://github.com/joshudson/dossuperfloppy/raw/refs/heads/master/scantests/basefat16.img.bz2 This is a full disk image, the filesystem starts at sector 7. -- System Information: Debian Release: 13.2 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.12.57+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages dosfstools depends on: ii libc6 2.41-12 dosfstools recommends no packages. dosfstools suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
