Dosfstools; Dstat - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 5.5 - TECHNICAL NOTES Manual

Chapter 1. Package Updates

1.42. dosfstools

1.42.1. RHBA-2010:0007: bug fix update
Note
This update has already been released (prior to the GA of this release) as FASTRACK
RHBA-2010:0007
errata
An updated dosfstools package that fixes two bugs is now available.
The dosfstools package includes the mkdosfs and dosfsck utilities, which respectively make and check
File Allocation Table (FAT) file systems on hard drives or on floppies.
This updated package provides fixes for the following bugs:
* when a FAT file system was created on a device-mapper device, if the drive geometry was not
reported correctly to mkdosfs, the command printed it was "unable to get drive geometry" and
was using the default drive geometry (255/63) instead. Because of an error, it did not, in fact, do
this. Consequently, dosfslabel could not set a label for the newly-created file system. With this
update, the error in the mkdosfs command was corrected: when the drive geometry is not correctly
reported, mkdosfs now sets the drive geometry to the default values as per its message to STD OUT.
Consequently, FAT file systems created with mkdosfs are now correct and dosfslabel can set its label.
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* although dosfstools contains ELF objects, the dosfstools-debuginfo package was empty. With this
update the -debuginfo package contains valid debugging information as expected.
All dosfstools users should upgrade to this updated package, which resolves these issues.

1.43. dstat

1.43.1. RHSA-2009:1619: Moderate security update
Important
This update has already been released (prior to the GA of this release) as the security
RHSA-2009:1619
errata
An updated dstat package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5.
This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response
Team.
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=249067
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=469842
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