Ubuntu and exFAT

[Bret Busby]

On 03/09/2018, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> hi,
> Am Montag, den 03.09.2018, 21:59 +0800 schrieb Bret Busby:
>> Hello.
>>
>> A new SSD has as its default, exFAT.
>>
>> I have seen that, to mount and use exFAT, in Ubuntu Linux, the
>> command
>> needs to be ran;
>> sudo apt install exfat-fuse exfat-utils
>>
>> I am wondering whether the fuse stuff to enable exFAT rw access, is
>> automatically included in Ubuntu 18.04, or also needs to be manually
>> added in 18.04
>>
> exfat is patent encumbered ... so you cant ship/distribute it by
> default (similar to the original mp3 codecs from fraunhofer back in the
> days) on an iso.
>
> ciao
> 	oli

Hello.

Thank you for your reply.

However, ...

An interesting observation - on the system on which I tried first to
install the two packages, from the response, it appears to me, that
the two exFAT packages were already installed.


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Bret Busby
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