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-mkdosfs - Make DOS file system utilty.
-
-
-I wrote this, partially to complement the dosfsck utility written by Werner
-Almesberger (who graciously gave me some pointers when I asked for some
-advice about writing this code), and also to avoid me having to boot DOS
-just to create data partitions (I use Linux to back up DOS :-) ).
-
-The code is really derived from Remy Card's mke2fs utility - I used this as a
-framework, although all of the file system specific stuff was removed and the
-DOS stuff inserted.  I believe originally mke2fs was based on Linus' mkfs
-code, hence the acknowledgements in the source code.
-
-Neither Remy nor Linus have had any involvement with mkdosfs, so if there are
-any bugs they're almost certainly "all my own work".
-
-The code has been available for ftp since 1st September 1993, and I have yet
-to receive any bug reports from users.  I don't know of any bugs, but if you
-do find a bug or have any constructive comments, please mail me!
-
-The only bug I found with version 0.1 was an obscure fault that could lead
-to an invalid (for MS-DOS, not Linux's dos fs) number of sectors used in the
-file allocation table(s).
-
-
-Dave Hudson
-dave@humbug.demon.co.uk
-
-
-FAT32 support
-=============
-
-mkdosfs now can also create filesystems in the new FAT32 format. To do
-this, give mkdosfs a "-F 32" option. FAT32 isn't selected
-automatically (yet), even if very large clusters are needed with
-FAT16. With FAT32 you have two additional options, -R to select the
-number of reserved sectors (usually 32), and -b to select the location
-of the backup boot sector (default 6). Of course such a backup is
-created, as well as the new info sector. On FAT32, the root directory
-is always created as a cluster chain. Sorry, there's no switch to
-generate an old static root dir.
-
-One bigger bug fix besides FAT32 was to reject filesystems that need a
-16 bit FAT to fit all possible clusters, but the bigger FAT needs some
-more sectors, so the total number of clusters drop below the border
-where MS-DOS expects a 12 bit FAT. So such filesystems would be FAT16,
-but interpreted as FAT32 by DOS. The fix is to reduce filesystem size
-a bit.
-
-- Roman <Roman.Hodek@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>