SPEC: Support existing dirty flag on a (v)FAT file system

[Mike Fedyk]

Onno Benschop wrote:
> On 21/03/07 03:32, Mike Fedyk wrote:
>> Onno Benschop wrote:
>>> As more and more users have access to USB sticks, external drives,
>>> digital cameras and larger drives that co-exist with other operating
>>> systems, dosfstools needs to participate in the existing file system
>>> integrity procedures, rather than just fix every (v)FAT partition it
>>> encounters.
>>>
>>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SpecificationDosDirtyFlag
>> It is not mentioned, but I assume you intend to support the standard
>> flags to check a filesystem even if the dirty flag is not set.  Is
>> that right?
> That is indeed the intent. It exists in the spec under Implementation,
> but I concede the wording could do with some work:
> 
>     A flag should be created to force a check on a clean file system for
>     command line use. 

Ok, be sure to use the same flags used by fsck.ext3 as they translate to 
vfat.

Mike