[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#680683: Bug#680683: Bug#680683: udisks - recommends mtools but mounts fat via kernel

[David Zeuthen]

Hi,

----- Original Message -----
> dosfslabel seems to comply to those restrictions. I couldn't find a
> reference which says that labels may be 254 characters long.
> Even when trying with mlabel, it shortens the string to 11 chars.
> There were also some bug fixes in dosfstools [1] wrt dosfslabel and
> it
> seems to work just fine here. It isn't a RH only hack either as it's
> included in dosfstools upstream.
> 
> Looks to me, as if switching to dosfslabel should be safe, but I'd
> appreciate if David and/or Martin could comment on this.

I would like to switch udisks to use something better and more reliable
than mtools (mtools has issues with encodings as well) - in fact, I've
had a mental TODO-item for a while to just rewrite it myself but if
there already is something suitable (dosfstools), I'm fine with using
that instead. I would suggest opening a bug against udisks on
bugs.fd.o for this udisks change.

    David