[Bug 1641104] Re: [Feature Request] exfat filesystem support

[aaronfranke]

>From that bug:

"I believe you are correct.  Licensing is not an issue for the GParted
application because GParted would simply call external exFAT tools.  I
do not think a simple call to an external tool constitutes a violation
of the licensing agreement.

However, this would not be the case with the GParted Live CD image.
GParted Live includes all the necessary software to use all of the
features of GParted.  Due to licensing constraints, we would not be able
to include exFAT tools in the image (i.e., without having paid for the
appropriate license).  ;-("

So, it appears that the functionality is able to be included into
Gparted without licensing issues, but that it isn't included due to
maintaining consistency with Gparted Live. Additionally:

"If all of the major GNU/Linux distributions were distributing the
ability to create exFAT file systems, then I would consider doing the
same with GParted and GParted Live."

As Jan has pointed out: "It seems like exfat-utils is included in
Debian, Ubuntu, Arch Linux and probably other distros currently, so I
think it would make sense now to support exFAT when these are
available?"

So, therefore, exfat-utils is indeed available in other distros, not
*all* of the major ones yet (most notably RedHat/Fedora), but a
considerable amount of them.

I think slapping on a "won't fix" is therefore premature, and we should
await the response of the Debian and Gparted developers on that bug.

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Title:
  [Feature Request] exfat filesystem support

Status in GParted:
  Won't Fix
Status in gparted package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Gparted already runs `mkfs.filesystemnamehere` for many of the file
  system types (all? not sure). Gparted could simply add this
  functionality by issuing the same commands but with `mkfs.exfat`
  instead. Do the same for all other functionality of exfat.

  One thing worth noting is that `exfat-utils` would have to be added as
  a dependency of Gparted.

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