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Use exfatprogs instead of exfat-utils to handle exFAT filesystem operations #903

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To understand why I got here look at: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-disk-utility/-/issues/210

Since version 5.7 of the Kernel a native driver is available to handle the exFAT file system, whose tool for the user space is exfatprogs. FUSE-based tools exfat-utils and fuse-exfat were used for a long time. Some distros have already migrated to using the native driver and even not including the FUSE-based driver packages, which can lead to problems in using this widely used file system.

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vojtechtrefny

vojtechtrefny commented on Jul 17, 2021

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We've already switched to a compatible mkfs.exfat call, see #882 and #883. This is not released yet, @tbzatek we should consider doing a new 2.9.x release or a downstream patch for Fedora.

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tbzatek commented on Jul 19, 2021

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Right, another 2.9.x series release makes sense now as the 2.10.0 release is still far away, possibly next year.

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tbzatek commented on Aug 16, 2021

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This is fixed in the recent 2.9.3 release.

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        Use exfatprogs instead of exfat-utils to handle exFAT filesystem operations ยท Issue #903 ยท storaged-project/udisks