[cmds] Remove fsck-dos FAT32 support allowing it to work on floppies #1822
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Since FAT12 and FAT16 cluster sizes are 16-bits, removing support (at least for now) from
fsck-dos
allows for reducing the memory size ofstruct fatEntry
by about half. This in turn seems to allowfsck-dos
to run on 1440k floppies and repair them without running out of memory.Tested on @tyama501's floppy image posted in #1819 (reply in thread).
Here's a screenshot of @tyama501's vi-damaged floppy image being repaired which matches the screenshot of the repair working succcesfully with the original fsck_msdos on his host PC (except FAT compare is being skipped):
Obviously we need more testing, but things are looking better now. I would be interested in test cases for more badly damaged FAT filesystems in FAT16 or FAT12 format.