fsck.fat: Add code for fixing first FAT cluster #155
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This patch tries to fix infamous fsck.fat error:
Both FATs appear to be corrupt. Giving up.
It just fill again FAT media type and sets other bits to one as it is
required by FAT specification. Similar thing is doing also Windows chkdsk
tool.
In the most cases corrupted first FAT cluster is fatal error which
indicates totally corrupted filesystem impossible to repair. So fixing
first FAT cluster is not done by fsck.fat automatically and needs to be
enabled by a new -F option, which forces usage of specified FAT table
(either clean or corrupted).
Extend also test-fsck script to read additional arguments from .args file.
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This patch tries to fix infamous fsck.fat error:
It just fill again FAT media type and sets other bits to one as it is
required by FAT specification. Similar thing is doing also Windows chkdsk
tool.
In the most cases corrupted first FAT cluster is fatal error which
indicates totally corrupted filesystem impossible to repair. So fixing
first FAT cluster is not done by fsck.fat automatically and needs to be
enabled by a new -F option, which forces usage of specified FAT table
(either clean or corrupted).
Fixes #22