openSUSE Recommended Update: Recommended update for dosfstools ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-RU-2022:0084-1 Rating: moderate References: #1172863 #1188401 Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.3 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that has two recommended fixes can now be installed. 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 <= 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 <= 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. Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Recommended Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE Leap 15.3: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.3-2022-84=1 Package List: - openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64): dosfstools-4.1-3.6.1 dosfstools-debuginfo-4.1-3.6.1 dosfstools-debugsource-4.1-3.6.1 References: https://bugzilla.suse.com/1172863 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188401