*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 48806 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/48806
== Dosfstools and reading the dirty flag ==
A few changes[1] to dosfstools, made just before 3.0.14 was released,
mean that dosfstools can now read a FAT partition's boot sector's dirty
flag.
== Do all three major OSes set the dirty flag? ==
Windows versions since at least[2] Windows 2000 set the dirty flag in a
FAT partition's boot sector when needed. Recent[2] released versions of
the Linux kernel do too.
What do recent versions of Mac OS X do? How do you know?
== My proposal ==
If we discover that all three major OSes can set the dirty flag when
needed, then:
A) I think someone should email the dosfstools maintainer and ask if he could
please subscribe to this bug.
B) I suggest that dosfsck should not check a clean filesystem unless someone
passes a "force" command-line parameter.
^ [1]. http://daniel-baumann.ch/gitweb/?p=software/dosfstools.git;a=shortlog
^ [2].
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b88a105802e9aeb6e234e8106659f5d1271081bb
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Dosfsck Run On Every Boot on FAT
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