dosfstools consists of the programs mkfs.fat, fsck.fat and fatlabel to create, check and label file systems of the FAT family. The dosfstools are licensed under the GNU GPL version 3 or later. See the file COPYING for details.

Installing

dosfstools are built using an autoconf/automake system, so the standard method applies:

./configure
make
make install

You need to have superuser privileges in order to install into the standard system wide locations.

Building from the VCS repository

If you are working directly from a git clone of the official dosfstools repository, you will find that you can not run ./configure straight away because it, like other autogenerated files for the build system, is not included in the repository.

First, autoconf and automake have to be installed. Then you can run autoreconf -i to generate all the required files.