Public bug reported:
exFAT is a relative new filesystem focused on external drives like USB flash
drives, it is similar to the tradicional FAT, but with less limitations (like
4GB size limit for files) and some better perfomance. It is starting to be
popular in some large drives (32GB, 64GB...).
There isn't still kernel (linux) support for this filesystem, but there is some
fuse driver to handle it similar to the way NTFS is handled.
There are two related packages: fuse-exfat, and exfat-utils, I have found them
in this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~relan/+archive/exfat
they seems to work well, after installing them, I can read and write files to
my exFAT drive as the normal way I do it with other drives in KDE.
Please try to include those packages in the official Ubuntu repositories, and
if possible, install them also by default, to have out-of-thebox support for
exFAT filesystems.
** Affects: fuse (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Affects: linux-meta (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Affects: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: linux-meta (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Description changed:
exFAT is a relative new filesystem focused on external drives like USB flash
drives, it is similar to the tradicional FAT, but with less limitations (like
4GB size limit for files) and some better perfomance. It is starting to be
popular in some large drives (32GB, 64GB...).
There isn't still kernel (linux) support for this filesystem, but there is
some fuse driver to handle it similar to the way NTFS is handled.
There are two related packages: fuse-exfat, and exfat-utils, I have found
them in this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~relan/+archive/exfat
- they seems to works ok, after installing them, I can read and write files to
me exFAT drive as the normal way I do it with other drives in KDE.
+ they seems to work well, after installing them, I can read and write files to
my exFAT drive as the normal way I do it with other drives in KDE.
Please try to include those packages in the official Ubuntu repositories, and
if possible, install them also by default, to have out-of-thebox support for
exFAT filesystems.
** Summary changed:
- [needs packaging]: fuse-exfat, extaf-utils: support for exFAT filesystems
+ [needs packaging]: fuse-exfat, exfat-utils: support for exFAT filesystems
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[needs packaging]: fuse-exfat, exfat-utils: support for exFAT
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