Hi,
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006, Jonas Meurer wrote:
> luksformat is not used by any other software in debian yet, and i don't
> know whether it really justifies a Suggests for dosfstools.
At least luksformat is used by users. :)
> On the other hand i don't know why the default fstype in luksformat is
> vfat. Martin, you're the author of luksformat, what was your intension
> when you set the default fstype to vfat?
>
> I would suggest to either change the default fstype to ext2 or to add
> some checks to luksformat which tell the user that the debian package
> 'dosfstools' is missing.
I think the default makes sense, I found this rationale in the man
page:
The default file system is vfat since that is most commonly used on
removable devices. However, you can specify any available file system
with the -t option.
Cheers,
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Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
