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Alexey Dobriyan1c6ace02009-01-22 10:37:59 +03002config FAT_FS
3 tristate
4 select NLS
5 help
6 If you want to use one of the FAT-based file systems (the MS-DOS and
7 VFAT (Windows 95) file systems), then you must say Y or M here
8 to include FAT support. You will then be able to mount partitions or
9 diskettes with FAT-based file systems and transparently access the
10 files on them, i.e. MSDOS files will look and behave just like all
11 other Unix files.
12
13 This FAT support is not a file system in itself, it only provides
14 the foundation for the other file systems. You will have to say Y or
15 M to at least one of "MSDOS fs support" or "VFAT fs support" in
16 order to make use of it.
17
18 Another way to read and write MSDOS floppies and hard drive
19 partitions from within Linux (but not transparently) is with the
20 mtools ("man mtools") program suite. You don't need to say Y here in
21 order to do that.
22
23 If you need to move large files on floppies between a DOS and a
24 Linux box, say Y here, mount the floppy under Linux with an MSDOS
25 file system and use GNU tar's M option. GNU tar is a program
26 available for Unix and DOS ("man tar" or "info tar").
27
28 The FAT support will enlarge your kernel by about 37 KB. If unsure,
29 say Y.
30
31 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
32 fat. Note that if you compile the FAT support as a module, you
33 cannot compile any of the FAT-based file systems into the kernel
34 -- they will have to be modules as well.
35
36config MSDOS_FS
37 tristate "MSDOS fs support"
38 select FAT_FS
39 help
40 This allows you to mount MSDOS partitions of your hard drive (unless
41 they are compressed; to access compressed MSDOS partitions under
42 Linux, you can either use the DOS emulator DOSEMU, described in the
43 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from
Alexander A. Klimov4ecfed62020-08-11 18:35:59 -070044 <https://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or try dmsdosfs in
Alexey Dobriyan1c6ace02009-01-22 10:37:59 +030045 <ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/dosfs/>. If you
46 intend to use dosemu with a non-compressed MSDOS partition, say Y
47 here) and MSDOS floppies. This means that file access becomes
48 transparent, i.e. the MSDOS files look and behave just like all
49 other Unix files.
50
51 If you have Windows 95 or Windows NT installed on your MSDOS
52 partitions, you should use the VFAT file system (say Y to "VFAT fs
53 support" below), or you will not be able to see the long filenames
54 generated by Windows 95 / Windows NT.
55
56 This option will enlarge your kernel by about 7 KB. If unsure,
57 answer Y. This will only work if you said Y to "DOS FAT fs support"
58 as well. To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will
59 be called msdos.
60
61config VFAT_FS
62 tristate "VFAT (Windows-95) fs support"
63 select FAT_FS
64 help
65 This option provides support for normal Windows file systems with
66 long filenames. That includes non-compressed FAT-based file systems
67 used by Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, and the Unix
68 programs from the mtools package.
69
70 The VFAT support enlarges your kernel by about 10 KB and it only
71 works if you said Y to the "DOS FAT fs support" above. Please read
Mauro Carvalho Chehab72ef5e52020-04-14 18:48:35 +020072 the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.rst> for details. If
Alexey Dobriyan1c6ace02009-01-22 10:37:59 +030073 unsure, say Y.
74
75 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
76 vfat.
77
78config FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE
79 int "Default codepage for FAT"
David Gowb0d4ada2021-04-15 23:56:23 -070080 depends on FAT_FS
Alexey Dobriyan1c6ace02009-01-22 10:37:59 +030081 default 437
82 help
83 This option should be set to the codepage of your FAT filesystems.
84 It can be overridden with the "codepage" mount option.
Mauro Carvalho Chehab72ef5e52020-04-14 18:48:35 +020085 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.rst> for more information.
Alexey Dobriyan1c6ace02009-01-22 10:37:59 +030086
87config FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET
88 string "Default iocharset for FAT"
89 depends on VFAT_FS
90 default "iso8859-1"
91 help
92 Set this to the default input/output character set you'd
93 like FAT to use. It should probably match the character set
94 that most of your FAT filesystems use, and can be overridden
95 with the "iocharset" mount option for FAT filesystems.
96 Note that "utf8" is not recommended for FAT filesystems.
Maciej S. Szmigiero38739382016-03-22 14:25:30 -070097 If unsure, you shouldn't set "utf8" here - select the next option
98 instead if you would like to use UTF-8 encoded file names by default.
Mauro Carvalho Chehab72ef5e52020-04-14 18:48:35 +020099 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.rst> for more information.
Alan Coxd29a2e92009-04-17 12:22:35 +0100100
101 Enable any character sets you need in File Systems/Native Language
102 Support.
Maciej S. Szmigiero38739382016-03-22 14:25:30 -0700103
104config FAT_DEFAULT_UTF8
105 bool "Enable FAT UTF-8 option by default"
106 depends on VFAT_FS
107 default n
108 help
109 Set this if you would like to have "utf8" mount option set
110 by default when mounting FAT filesystems.
111
112 Even if you say Y here can always disable UTF-8 for
113 particular mount by adding "utf8=0" to mount options.
114
115 Say Y if you use UTF-8 encoding for file names, N otherwise.
116
Mauro Carvalho Chehab72ef5e52020-04-14 18:48:35 +0200117 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.rst> for more information.
David Gowb0d4ada2021-04-15 23:56:23 -0700118
119config FAT_KUNIT_TEST
120 tristate "Unit Tests for FAT filesystems" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
121 depends on KUNIT && FAT_FS
122 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
123 help
124 This builds the FAT KUnit tests
125
126 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general, please refer
127 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit
128
129 If unsure, say N