dosfstools
dosfstools consists of the programs mkfs.fat, fsck.fat and fatlabel to create, check and label file systems of the FAT family. (by dosfstools)
genext2fs
genext2fs - ext2 filesystem generator for embedded systems (by bestouff)
| dosfstools | genext2fs | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1 | |
| 240 | 51 | |
| 2.1% | - | |
| 2.6 | 0.0 | |
| 26 days ago | about 2 months ago | |
| C | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
dosfstools
Posts with mentions or reviews of dosfstools.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-21.
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[Hi, we found those typos in your man pages, can you fix these?] "Well, reporting issue with description of changes which cannot be applied automatically […] just take lot of more developer time." *proceeds to argue over the following months*
The patch:
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Creating a FAT filesystem on a file
Download a release at https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/releases and extract it
genext2fs
Posts with mentions or reviews of genext2fs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-29.
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Tar is an ill-specified format
I also have written my own tar parser, in https://github.com/bestouff/genext2fs - oh boy it's not easy ! My parser is of course incomplete and won't handle corner cases, which are really plenty. In the end I added libarchive as an alternative to my hand-rolled code because that's how it works best.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing dosfstools and genext2fs you can also consider the following projects:
exfatprogs - exFAT filesystem userspace utilities
dracut - dracut the event driven initramfs infrastructure
squashfs-tools-ng - A new set of tools and libraries for working with SquashFS images
squashfs-tools - tools to create and extract Squashfs filesystems
elks - Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset - Linux for 8086
termux-packages - A package build system for Termux.
IoTGoat - IoTGoat is a deliberately insecure firmware created to educate software developers and security professionals with testing commonly found vulnerabilities in IoT devices.
apfsprogs - Experimental APFS tools for linux
nnn - n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager
genimage - tool to generate multiple filesystem and flash images from a tree