[Bug 1434603] Re: Ubuntu should add default support for exFAT partitions

[kirstin]

Also, it would be cool to have default support already in initrd.gz - as
already mentioned earlier, large thumb-drives become more and more
common, exFat is the most common choice for these large drives. To boot
from exFat drives one needs to hack the needed libs and binaries into
the the initrd.gz as described in http://borgernet.com/blog/14/booting-
ubuntu-isos-on-exfat/

Having this integrated as default  (if legally possible) would be...
visionary

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Title:
  Ubuntu should add default support for exFAT partitions

Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  If a USB pendrive containing an exFAT partition is connected, Ubuntu
  can't mount the partition. Test has been done on a Vivid amd64 live
  system using today's daily ISO.

  Steps to reproduce:
  1- Insert an USB pendrive containing an exFAT partition
  2- The partition is not automatically mounted
  3- Trying to manually mount the partition via the terminal shows this output:
      mount: unknown filesystem type 'exfat'

  Steps to fix the issue:
  1- Install packages exfat-fuse and exfat-utils

  exFAT pendrives are more and more common in newer devices, and this
  issue is not easily fixable by the average John Doe. We should add the
  two packages above to the seeds and grant default support to our
  users.

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