Automount fails on newest update

[Ian Bruntlett]

Hi Liam,

On Fri, 8 Sept 2023 at 18:40, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> It used to be -- I haven't checked recently. My impression was that a
> few years ago MS made the code FOSS and all recent kernels include it,
> although it's only much more recently that it's gained any ability to
> repair it:
>
> https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/01/linux_exfat_repair_drives/

On a test machine running Ubuntu 22.04.3 x86_64, I accessed an exfat
drive without installing the exfatprogs package. I read from it OK and
probably wrote to it OK.

However, to format a drive as exfat using GNOME Disks, I needed to
install package exfatprogs.

Here is the blurb on exfatprogs:

"Tools to manage extended file allocation table filesystem.
This package provides tools to create, check and label the
filesystem. It contains
 - mkfs.exfat to create an exFAT filesystem
 - fsck.exfat to check and repair an exFAT filesystem
 - tune.exfat to print and edit the filesystem label
The tools included in this package are the exfatprogs
maintained by Samsung engineers, who provided Linux exFAT
support. A similar but independent implementation of these
tools, written by the author of the exfat-fuse implementation,
are available in the exfat-utils package."

HTH and have a good weekend :)


Ian

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