diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/dosfstools/dosfstools_2.11.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/dosfstools/dosfstools_2.11.bb
index eca54f1870..b7b85f059e 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/dosfstools/dosfstools_2.11.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/dosfstools/dosfstools_2.11.bb
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "DOS FAT Filesystem Utilities"
 SECTION = "base"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://mkdosfs/COPYING;md5=cbe67f08d6883bff587f615f0cc81aa8"
-PR = "r4"
+PR = "r5"
 
 SRC_URI = "ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/Linux/LOCAL/dosfstools/dosfstools-${PV}.src.tar.gz \
            file://mkdosfs-bootcode.patch \
@@ -22,6 +22,11 @@ SRC_URI = "ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/Linux/LOCAL/dosfstools/dosfstools-${PV}
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "407d405ade410f7597d364ab5dc8c9f6"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "0eac6d12388b3d9ed78684529c1b0d9346fa2abbe406c4d4a3eb5a023c98a484"
 
+# Makefile sets this, but we clobber its CFLAGS, so
+# add this in here to for sure allow for big files.
+#
+CFLAGS_append = " -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"
+
 do_install () {
 	oe_runmake "PREFIX=${D}" "SBINDIR=${D}${sbindir}" \
 		   "MANDIR=${D}${mandir}/man8" install