installer: use FAT16 for Generic system partition / dosfstools: reduce fsck.fat log spam #4275
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Since dosfstools bump to 4.1 (#3858) mkfs.fat used in installer automatically format the system partition FAT32 instead of FAT16.
One difference in the file system layout is the introduced FAT32 backup boot sector. On Generic build the Syslinux legacy installation is writing the boot sector and omitting the backup boot sector. Therefore fsck.fat complains about differences in boot and backup sector on every boot generating a long diff, i.e.:
To avoid this annoying output format the system partition FAT16 again on new installations. For existing installations reduce log spam by adding a fsck.fat patch to suppress the diff output in automatic mode .
Third commit is more cosmetic setting the GPT partition labels to the defined names instead of using "primary".
Note: The image generation with scripts/mkimage using mformat of mtools is not affected by the implicit file system change.