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** Changed in: curtin
Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1597923
Title:
curtin is unable to create whole disk fat/vfat formats
Status in curtin:
Fix Released
Status in curtin package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in curtin source package in Xenial:
Fix Released
Bug description:
[Impact]
* Curtin is unable to create FAT/VFAT filesystems on whole disks. The FAT
filesystem creation utilities do not, by default, support creating a
FAT filesystem against an unpartitioned device.
Curtin has been updated to support passing a force flag to the
utilities to allow custom storage configurations to use FAT/VFAT
filesystems against such a device.
[Test Case]
* Install proposed curtin package and deploy Ubuntu to target system
specifying a VFAT filesystem on top of a whole block device.
PASS: Ubuntu installation succeeds
FAIL: Ubuntu installation fails when attempting to format the block
device on which the VFAT filesystem would reside.
[Regression Potential]
* Other OSes which may attempt to mount and read a VFAT filesystem
created in so-called 'superfloppy' format might not recognize the
filesystem.
[Original Description]
The mkfs.fat and mkfs.vfat tools do not by default permit the creation of a
filesystem on a disk that has not been partitioned. This is not really a
limitation of the filesystems themselves; it is just a safety feature to keep
people from accidentally overwriting data.
Since some curtin users may have a need for whole disk fat/vfat
filesystems, it makes sense to use the '-I' flag for mkfs.vfat
commands, which forces the tools to work on whole disks. It appears
that this flag does not interfere with any of the other options in
mkfs, and so is essentially a force flag, and can just be added to
family_flag_mappings in block.mkfs
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