Summary: | partitionmanager does not recognize exfat kernel support | ||
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Product: | [Applications] partitionmanager | Reporter: | Darin Miller <darinsmiller> |
Component: | general | Assignee: | Andrius Štikonas <andrius> |
Status: | RESOLVED NOT A BUG | ||
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | NOR | ||
Version: | 4.1.0 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Platform: | Kubuntu | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: |
Description
Darin Miller
2020-04-28 19:39:31 UTC
exfat-utils are required even if kernel supports mounting exfat. Just like btrfsprogs are required to format btrfs partitions even though kernel knows about btrfs but it can only mount it, not format it. Formatting partitions is always done by userspace code. There is no reason to put it into the kernel. So packagers can eliminate the dependency for exfat-fuse for kernels 5.4 and above since partitionmanager works fine without it on 5.4. Good to know. (In reply to Darin Miller from comment #2) > So packagers can eliminate the dependency for exfat-fuse for kernels 5.4 and > above since partitionmanager works fine without it on 5.4. Good to know. Yes, that's true. Although, maybe exfat driver left staging area later, so maybe best to use it with 5.7 or later. |