Bug#393473: [Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#393473: Misses dependency on dosfstools

Jonas Meurer jonas at freesources.org
Tue Oct 17 16:31:47 UTC 2006


(sorry missed to send it to the bug report the first time)

On 17/10/2006 Loïc Minier wrote:
>  At least luksformat is used by users. :)
> 
> > On the other hand i don't know why the default fstype in luksformat is
> > vfat. Martin, you're the author of luksformat, what was your intension
> > when you set the default fstype to vfat?
> 
>  I think the default makes sense, I found this rationale in the man page:
>        The default file system is vfat since that is most commonly used on
>        removable devices. However, you can specify any available file system
>        with the -t option.

i agree. the next upload of cryptsetup will suggest dosfstools.

...
 jonas




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