[Bug 908457] Re: [needs-packaging]: fuse-exfat, exfat-utils: support for exFAT filesystems
Whoopie
908457 at bugs.launchpad.net
Fri Aug 17 09:46:31 UTC 2012
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 315710 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/315710
Both packages are now in the quantal archive (synced from Debian).
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 315710
Linux needs exFAT support
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Title:
[needs-packaging]: fuse-exfat, exfat-utils: support for exFAT
filesystems
Status in Ubuntu:
New
Status in “fuse” package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
exFAT is a relative new filesystem focused on external drives like USB flash drives, it is similar to the tradicional FAT, but with less limitations (like 4GB size limit for files) and some better perfomance. It is starting to be popular in some large drives (32GB, 64GB...).
There isn't still kernel (linux) support for this filesystem, but there is some fuse driver to handle it similar to the way NTFS is handled.
There are two related packages: fuse-exfat, and exfat-utils, I have found them in this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~relan/+archive/exfat
they seems to work well, after installing them, I can read and write files to my exFAT drive as the normal way I do it with other drives in KDE.
Please try to include those packages in the official Ubuntu repositories, and if possible, install them also by default, to have out-of-thebox support for exFAT filesystems.
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