[VFATLIB] Addendum to 469289e

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@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ dosfstools recommends libudev. It is used in mkfs.fat to collect additional
information about the device to format in order to refuse potentially unsafe
operations without additional confirmation.
The test suite requires the tool xxd (available as part of the vim
distribution).
### Installing
@ -28,6 +31,17 @@ installation. These are dosfsck, fsck.msdos and fsck.vfat for fsck.fat, mkdosfs,
mkfs.msdos and mkfs.vfat for mkfs.fat and dosfslabel for fatlabel.
### Running the test suite
The test suite can be run with "make check" after configuring. Note that if
xxd isn't available, all tests will be skipped and nothing actually tested.
During the tests temporary files of multiple GB in size will be created, but the
actual data content is not more than a few MB. The operating system and the
filesystem the tests are executed on should support sparse files, otherwise the
tests will be resource intensive.
### Building from the VCS repository
If you are working directly from a git clone of the official dosfstools