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[Treeve Jelbert <treeve01 AT pi.be>]

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On Saturday 21 February 2004 18:41, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 06:32:28PM +0100, Treeve Jelbert wrote:
> > I recently rebuilt dosfstools under linux-2.6
> >
> >
> > I now get various error messages when checking a fat32 partition but
> > Windows98 reports that the partition is OK.
> > Also, running an older version of dosfstools from a linux-2.4 cd shows no
> > errors.
> >
> >
> > At present the mountall.sh script fails because of this, so I am unable
> > to access the Windows partitions.
> >
> > I did notice some warnings in the compile log which may be relevant
> >
> > Does any one have any suggestions?
>
> No idea how to get it to work correctly if compiled with 2.6 headers,
> but if you just want it working locally, cast -r glibc-kernel-headers,
> choose 2.4 headers, cast dosfstools, then switch back to 2.6 headers.
>

this solves it. 

dosfstools definitely fails to run  if built with 2.6 headers


the problem seems to be in check.c


Thanks for the suggestion.


> Maybe we should just patch the spell to include the relevant headers
> from 2.4, shouldn't be too many.
Regards,  Treeve 

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