# zypse exfat | exfat-utils | package | 1.4.0-1.2 | x86_64 | OSS | exfatprogs | package | 1.2.0-1.2 | x86_64 | OSS | fuse-exfat | package | 1.4.0-1.1 | x86_64 | OSS # zypper info exfat-utils ... Information for package exfat-utils: ------------------------------------ Repository : OSS Name : exfat-utils Version : 1.4.0-1.2 Arch : x86_64 Vendor : openSUSE Installed Size : 219.2 KiB Installed : No Status : not installed Source package : exfat-utils-1.4.0-1.2.src Upstream URL : https://github.com/relan/exfat Summary : Utilities for exFAT file system Description : A set of utilities for creating, checking, dumping and labelling exFAT file system. # zypper info exfatprogs ... Information for package exfatprogs: ----------------------------------- Repository : OSS Name : exfatprogs Version : 1.2.0-1.2 Arch : x86_64 Vendor : openSUSE Installed Size : 220.1 KiB Installed : No Status : not installed Source package : exfatprogs-1.2.0-1.2.src Upstream URL : https://github.com/exfatprogs/exfatprogs Summary : Utilities for exFAT file system maintenance Description : A set of utilities for creating, checking, dumping and labelling exFAT file system. # zypper info fuse-exfat ... Information for package fuse-exfat: ----------------------------------- Repository : OSS Name : fuse-exfat Version : 1.4.0-1.1 Arch : x86_64 Vendor : openSUSE Installed Size : 79.2 KiB Installed : No Status : not installed Source package : fuse-exfat-1.4.0-1.1.src Upstream URL : https://github.com/relan/exfat Summary : exFAT file system implementation Description : This driver is an exFAT file system implementation with write support. exFAT is a simple file system created by Microsoft. It is intended to replace FAT32, removing some of its limitations. exFAT is a standard FS for SDXC memory cards. These utils/progs packages seem to be the same thing. Are they? Which should I install for making and maintaining USB sticks that both Win10 and Linux like? Other than exfat-utils has a newer latest release on github, what's the difference? Is fuse required additionally, or instead? Is it only intended for use with older kernels lacking exfat support? -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata
On 2023-04-03 05:15, Felix Miata wrote:
# zypse exfat | exfat-utils | package | 1.4.0-1.2 | x86_64 | OSS | exfatprogs | package | 1.2.0-1.2 | x86_64 | OSS | fuse-exfat | package | 1.4.0-1.1 | x86_64 | OSS # zypper info exfat-utils ... ... Description : A set of utilities for creating, checking, dumping and labelling exFAT file system.
# zypper info exfatprogs ... ... Description : A set of utilities for creating, checking, dumping and labelling exFAT file system. # zypper info fuse-exfat ... ... Description : This driver is an exFAT file system implementation with write support. exFAT is a simple file system created by Microsoft. It is intended to replace FAT32, removing some of its limitations. exFAT is a standard FS for SDXC memory cards.
These utils/progs packages seem to be the same thing. Are they? Which should I install for making and maintaining USB sticks that both Win10 and Linux like? Other than exfat-utils has a newer latest release on github, what's the difference? Is fuse required additionally, or instead? Is it only intended for use with older kernels lacking exfat support?
I can answer for Leap. cer@Telcontar:~> rpm -qa | grep exfat exfatprogs-1.0.4-3.3.1.x86_64 fuse-exfat-1.3.0-bp154.1.20.x86_64 cer@Telcontar:~> cer@Telcontar:~> rpm -ql exfatprogs /usr/sbin/fsck.exfat /usr/sbin/mkfs.exfat /usr/sbin/tune.exfat /usr/share/doc/packages/exfatprogs /usr/share/doc/packages/exfatprogs/README.md /usr/share/licenses/exfatprogs /usr/share/licenses/exfatprogs/COPYING /usr/share/man/man8/fsck.exfat.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/mkfs.exfat.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/tune.exfat.8.gz cer@Telcontar:~> cer@Telcontar:~> rpm -ql fuse-exfat /sbin/mount.exfat /sbin/mount.exfat-fuse /usr/sbin/mount.exfat /usr/sbin/mount.exfat-fuse /usr/share/doc/packages/fuse-exfat /usr/share/doc/packages/fuse-exfat/ChangeLog /usr/share/doc/packages/fuse-exfat/README /usr/share/licenses/fuse-exfat /usr/share/licenses/fuse-exfat/COPYING /usr/share/man/man8/mount.exfat-fuse.8.gz cer@Telcontar:~> You can see that those two contain different files. Now I install "exfat-utils", and see what it contains. [...] Well, I can't: No provider of 'exfat-utils' found. I would have to add repo "filesystems". So this one is on you: you install it, and tell me what it contains :-) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)
* Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net> [04-03-23 03:59]:
On 2023-04-03 05:15, Felix Miata wrote:
# zypse exfat | exfat-utils | package | 1.4.0-1.2 | x86_64 | OSS | exfatprogs | package | 1.2.0-1.2 | x86_64 | OSS | fuse-exfat | package | 1.4.0-1.1 | x86_64 | OSS # zypper info exfat-utils ... ... Description : A set of utilities for creating, checking, dumping and labelling exFAT file system.
# zypper info exfatprogs ... ... Description : A set of utilities for creating, checking, dumping and labelling exFAT file system. # zypper info fuse-exfat ... ... Description : This driver is an exFAT file system implementation with write support. exFAT is a simple file system created by Microsoft. It is intended to replace FAT32, removing some of its limitations. exFAT is a standard FS for SDXC memory cards.
These utils/progs packages seem to be the same thing. Are they? Which should I install for making and maintaining USB sticks that both Win10 and Linux like? Other than exfat-utils has a newer latest release on github, what's the difference? Is fuse required additionally, or instead? Is it only intended for use with older kernels lacking exfat support?
I can answer for Leap.
cer@Telcontar:~> rpm -qa | grep exfat exfatprogs-1.0.4-3.3.1.x86_64 fuse-exfat-1.3.0-bp154.1.20.x86_64 cer@Telcontar:~>
cer@Telcontar:~> rpm -ql exfatprogs /usr/sbin/fsck.exfat /usr/sbin/mkfs.exfat /usr/sbin/tune.exfat /usr/share/doc/packages/exfatprogs /usr/share/doc/packages/exfatprogs/README.md /usr/share/licenses/exfatprogs /usr/share/licenses/exfatprogs/COPYING /usr/share/man/man8/fsck.exfat.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/mkfs.exfat.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/tune.exfat.8.gz cer@Telcontar:~>
cer@Telcontar:~> rpm -ql fuse-exfat /sbin/mount.exfat /sbin/mount.exfat-fuse /usr/sbin/mount.exfat /usr/sbin/mount.exfat-fuse /usr/share/doc/packages/fuse-exfat /usr/share/doc/packages/fuse-exfat/ChangeLog /usr/share/doc/packages/fuse-exfat/README /usr/share/licenses/fuse-exfat /usr/share/licenses/fuse-exfat/COPYING /usr/share/man/man8/mount.exfat-fuse.8.gz cer@Telcontar:~>
You can see that those two contain different files.
Now I install "exfat-utils", and see what it contains. [...] Well, I can't:
No provider of 'exfat-utils' found.
I would have to add repo "filesystems". So this one is on you: you install it, and tell me what it contains :-)
zypper in exfatprogs Problem: the to be installed exfatprogs-1.2.0-1.2.x86_64 conflicts with 'exfat-utils' provided by the installed exfat-utils-1.4.0-1.2.x86_64 -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet oftc
On 2023-04-03 17:22, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net> [04-03-23 03:59]:
On 2023-04-03 05:15, Felix Miata wrote:
I can answer for Leap.
cer@Telcontar:~> rpm -qa | grep exfat exfatprogs-1.0.4-3.3.1.x86_64 fuse-exfat-1.3.0-bp154.1.20.x86_64 cer@Telcontar:~>
cer@Telcontar:~> rpm -ql exfatprogs /usr/sbin/fsck.exfat /usr/sbin/mkfs.exfat /usr/sbin/tune.exfat /usr/share/doc/packages/exfatprogs /usr/share/doc/packages/exfatprogs/README.md /usr/share/licenses/exfatprogs /usr/share/licenses/exfatprogs/COPYING /usr/share/man/man8/fsck.exfat.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/mkfs.exfat.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/tune.exfat.8.gz cer@Telcontar:~>
cer@Telcontar:~> rpm -ql fuse-exfat /sbin/mount.exfat /sbin/mount.exfat-fuse /usr/sbin/mount.exfat /usr/sbin/mount.exfat-fuse /usr/share/doc/packages/fuse-exfat /usr/share/doc/packages/fuse-exfat/ChangeLog /usr/share/doc/packages/fuse-exfat/README /usr/share/licenses/fuse-exfat /usr/share/licenses/fuse-exfat/COPYING /usr/share/man/man8/mount.exfat-fuse.8.gz cer@Telcontar:~>
You can see that those two contain different files.
Now I install "exfat-utils", and see what it contains. [...] Well, I can't:
No provider of 'exfat-utils' found.
I would have to add repo "filesystems". So this one is on you: you install it, and tell me what it contains :-)
zypper in exfatprogs
Problem: the to be installed exfatprogs-1.2.0-1.2.x86_64 conflicts with 'exfat-utils' provided by the installed exfat-utils-1.4.0-1.2.x86_64
Ok, then on TW there is indeed a problem, a package too many. Ok, I download exfat-utils-1.4.0-1.2.x86_64.rpm to a temporary directory and look inside with 'mc', it contains:
CONTENTS.cpio 1718/1718 100% -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 43120 Mar 19 22:36 ./usr/sbin/dumpexfat -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 39024 Mar 19 22:36 ./usr/sbin/exfatattrib -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 43120 Mar 19 22:36 ./usr/sbin/exfatfsck -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 39024 Mar 19 22:36 ./usr/sbin/exfatlabel lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Mar 19 22:36 ./usr/sbin/fsck.exfat -> exfatfsck -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 28640 Mar 19 22:36 ./usr/sbin/mkexfatfs lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Mar 19 22:36 ./usr/sbin/mkfs.exfat -> mkexfatfs drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Mar 19 22:36 ./usr/share/doc/packages/exfat-utils -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8345 Mar 2 20:48 ./usr/share/doc/packages/exfat-utils/ChangeLog -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1884 Mar 2 21:23 ./usr/share/doc/packages/exfat-utils/README drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Mar 19 22:36 ./usr/share/licenses/exfat-utils -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18092 Aug 24 2015 ./usr/share/licenses/exfat-utils/COPYING -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 568 Mar 19 22:36 ./usr/share/man/man8/dumpexfat.8.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 672 Mar 19 22:36 ./usr/share/man/man8/exfatattrib.8.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 510 Mar 19 22:36 ./usr/share/man/man8/exfatfsck.8.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Mar 19 22:36 ./usr/share/man/man8/exfatlabel.8.gz lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Mar 19 22:36 ./usr/share/man/man8/fsck.exfat.8.gz -> exfatfsck.8.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 865 Mar 19 22:36 ./usr/share/man/man8/mkexfatfs.8.gz lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Mar 19 22:36 ./usr/share/man/man8/mkfs.exfat.8.gz -> mkexfatfs.8.gz
unique programs: dumpexfat exfatattrib exfatfsck (aka fsck.exfat) mkexfatfs (aka mkfs.exfat) mkfs.exfat and fsck.exfat are also included in package exfatprogs, I don't know which is the correct package to install. exfatprogs-1.2.0-1.2.x86_64.rpm:
CONTENTS.cpio 1386/1386 100% -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14592 Mar 19 22:37 ./usr/sbin/dump.exfat -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 35072 Mar 19 22:37 ./usr/sbin/exfat2img -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 26912 Mar 19 22:37 ./usr/sbin/exfatlabel -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 52208 Mar 19 22:37 ./usr/sbin/fsck.exfat -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 35008 Mar 19 22:37 ./usr/sbin/mkfs.exfat -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 35232 Mar 19 22:37 ./usr/sbin/tune.exfat drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Mar 19 22:37 ./usr/share/doc/packages/exfatprogs -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4245 Oct 28 11:28 ./usr/share/doc/packages/exfatprogs/README.md drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Mar 19 22:37 ./usr/share/licenses/exfatprogs -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18092 Sep 6 2022 ./usr/share/licenses/exfatprogs/COPYING -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 208 Mar 19 22:37 ./usr/share/man/man8/dump.exfat.8.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 546 Mar 19 22:37 ./usr/share/man/man8/exfat2img.8.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 369 Mar 19 22:37 ./usr/share/man/man8/exfatlabel.8.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1056 Mar 19 22:37 ./usr/share/man/man8/fsck.exfat.8.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1519 Mar 19 22:37 ./usr/share/man/man8/mkfs.exfat.8.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 367 Mar 19 22:37 ./usr/share/man/man8/tune.exfat.8.gz
Ok, the file "usr/share/doc/packages/exfatprogs/README.md" says: ## exfatprogs As new exfat filesystem is merged into linux-5.7 kernel, exfatprogs is created as an official userspace utilities that contain all of the standard utilities for creating and fixing and debugging exfat filesystem in linux system. The goal of exfatprogs is to provide high performance and quality at the level of exfat utilities in windows. And this software is licensed under the GNU General Public License Version 2. So this is the correct one for TW, IMO -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)
Carlos E. R. composed on 2023-04-03 20:14 (UTC+0200):
Ok, the file "usr/share/doc/packages/exfatprogs/README.md" says:
## exfatprogs
As new exfat filesystem is merged into linux-5.7 kernel, exfatprogs is created as an official userspace utilities that contain all of the standard utilities for creating and fixing and debugging exfat filesystem in linux system. The goal of exfatprogs is to provide high performance and quality at the level of exfat utilities in windows. And this software is licensed under the GNU General Public License Version 2.
So this is the correct one for TW, IMO
Before anyone responded to my OP, I found https://itsfoss.com/format-exfat-linux/ where for Ubuntu 20.04 exfat-utils plus exfat-fuse were recommended, while for 22.04 it was changed to exfatprogs plus exfat-fuse, so on TW I went for the apparently newer technology: fuse-exfat plus exfatprogs. While it worked, it didn't solve the problem that indirectly caused the question: how to get the 22H2 Win10 .iso onto a stick such that it could be used to upgrade from 20H2. Every attempt to run its setup.exe content disallowed upgrading, only allowed fresh installation. :( -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata
On 2023-04-03 21:19, Felix Miata wrote:
Carlos E. R. composed on 2023-04-03 20:14 (UTC+0200):
Ok, the file "usr/share/doc/packages/exfatprogs/README.md" says:
## exfatprogs
As new exfat filesystem is merged into linux-5.7 kernel, exfatprogs is created as an official userspace utilities that contain all of the standard utilities for creating and fixing and debugging exfat filesystem in linux system. The goal of exfatprogs is to provide high performance and quality at the level of exfat utilities in windows. And this software is licensed under the GNU General Public License Version 2.
So this is the correct one for TW, IMO
Before anyone responded to my OP, I found https://itsfoss.com/format-exfat-linux/ where for Ubuntu 20.04 exfat-utils plus exfat-fuse were recommended, while for 22.04 it was changed to exfatprogs plus exfat-fuse, so on TW I went for the apparently newer technology: fuse-exfat plus exfatprogs.
While it worked, it didn't solve the problem that indirectly caused the question: how to get the 22H2 Win10 .iso onto a stick such that it could be used to upgrade from 20H2. Every attempt to run its setup.exe content disallowed upgrading, only allowed fresh installation. :(
I don't see the relationship to installing/upgrading Windows. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)
* Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net> [04-03-23 14:16]:
On 2023-04-03 17:22, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net> [04-03-23 03:59]:
On 2023-04-03 05:15, Felix Miata wrote:
I can answer for Leap.
cer@Telcontar:~> rpm -qa | grep exfat exfatprogs-1.0.4-3.3.1.x86_64 fuse-exfat-1.3.0-bp154.1.20.x86_64 cer@Telcontar:~>
cer@Telcontar:~> rpm -ql exfatprogs /usr/sbin/fsck.exfat /usr/sbin/mkfs.exfat /usr/sbin/tune.exfat /usr/share/doc/packages/exfatprogs /usr/share/doc/packages/exfatprogs/README.md /usr/share/licenses/exfatprogs /usr/share/licenses/exfatprogs/COPYING /usr/share/man/man8/fsck.exfat.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/mkfs.exfat.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/tune.exfat.8.gz cer@Telcontar:~>
cer@Telcontar:~> rpm -ql fuse-exfat /sbin/mount.exfat /sbin/mount.exfat-fuse /usr/sbin/mount.exfat /usr/sbin/mount.exfat-fuse /usr/share/doc/packages/fuse-exfat /usr/share/doc/packages/fuse-exfat/ChangeLog /usr/share/doc/packages/fuse-exfat/README /usr/share/licenses/fuse-exfat /usr/share/licenses/fuse-exfat/COPYING /usr/share/man/man8/mount.exfat-fuse.8.gz cer@Telcontar:~>
You can see that those two contain different files.
Now I install "exfat-utils", and see what it contains. [...] Well, I can't:
No provider of 'exfat-utils' found.
I would have to add repo "filesystems". So this one is on you: you install it, and tell me what it contains :-)
zypper in exfatprogs
Problem: the to be installed exfatprogs-1.2.0-1.2.x86_64 conflicts with 'exfat-utils' provided by the installed exfat-utils-1.4.0-1.2.x86_64
Ok, then on TW there is indeed a problem, a package too many. Ok, I download exfat-utils-1.4.0-1.2.x86_64.rpm to a temporary directory and look inside with 'mc', it contains:
maybe restate as you apparently mis-understand. one may use one pgm or the other but not both installed at the same time.
CONTENTS.cpio 1718/1718 100% -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 43120 Mar 19 22:36 ./usr/sbin/dumpexfat -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 39024 Mar 19 22:36 ./usr/sbin/exfatattrib -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 43120 Mar 19 22:36 ./usr/sbin/exfatfsck -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 39024 Mar 19 22:36 ./usr/sbin/exfatlabel lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Mar 19 22:36 ./usr/sbin/fsck.exfat -> exfatfsck -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 28640 Mar 19 22:36 ./usr/sbin/mkexfatfs lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Mar 19 22:36 ./usr/sbin/mkfs.exfat -> mkexfatfs drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Mar 19 22:36 ./usr/share/doc/packages/exfat-utils -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8345 Mar 2 20:48 ./usr/share/doc/packages/exfat-utils/ChangeLog -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1884 Mar 2 21:23 ./usr/share/doc/packages/exfat-utils/README drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Mar 19 22:36 ./usr/share/licenses/exfat-utils -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18092 Aug 24 2015 ./usr/share/licenses/exfat-utils/COPYING -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 568 Mar 19 22:36 ./usr/share/man/man8/dumpexfat.8.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 672 Mar 19 22:36 ./usr/share/man/man8/exfatattrib.8.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 510 Mar 19 22:36 ./usr/share/man/man8/exfatfsck.8.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Mar 19 22:36 ./usr/share/man/man8/exfatlabel.8.gz lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Mar 19 22:36 ./usr/share/man/man8/fsck.exfat.8.gz -> exfatfsck.8.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 865 Mar 19 22:36 ./usr/share/man/man8/mkexfatfs.8.gz lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Mar 19 22:36 ./usr/share/man/man8/mkfs.exfat.8.gz -> mkexfatfs.8.gz
unique programs:
dumpexfat exfatattrib exfatfsck (aka fsck.exfat) mkexfatfs (aka mkfs.exfat)
mkfs.exfat and fsck.exfat are also included in package exfatprogs,
I don't know which is the correct package to install.
exfatprogs-1.2.0-1.2.x86_64.rpm:
CONTENTS.cpio 1386/1386 100% -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14592 Mar 19 22:37 ./usr/sbin/dump.exfat -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 35072 Mar 19 22:37 ./usr/sbin/exfat2img -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 26912 Mar 19 22:37 ./usr/sbin/exfatlabel -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 52208 Mar 19 22:37 ./usr/sbin/fsck.exfat -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 35008 Mar 19 22:37 ./usr/sbin/mkfs.exfat -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 35232 Mar 19 22:37 ./usr/sbin/tune.exfat drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Mar 19 22:37 ./usr/share/doc/packages/exfatprogs -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4245 Oct 28 11:28 ./usr/share/doc/packages/exfatprogs/README.md drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Mar 19 22:37 ./usr/share/licenses/exfatprogs -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18092 Sep 6 2022 ./usr/share/licenses/exfatprogs/COPYING -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 208 Mar 19 22:37 ./usr/share/man/man8/dump.exfat.8.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 546 Mar 19 22:37 ./usr/share/man/man8/exfat2img.8.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 369 Mar 19 22:37 ./usr/share/man/man8/exfatlabel.8.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1056 Mar 19 22:37 ./usr/share/man/man8/fsck.exfat.8.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1519 Mar 19 22:37 ./usr/share/man/man8/mkfs.exfat.8.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 367 Mar 19 22:37 ./usr/share/man/man8/tune.exfat.8.gz
Ok, the file "usr/share/doc/packages/exfatprogs/README.md" says:
## exfatprogs
As new exfat filesystem is merged into linux-5.7 kernel, exfatprogs is created as an official userspace utilities that contain all of the standard utilities for creating and fixing and debugging exfat filesystem in linux system. The goal of exfatprogs is to provide high performance and quality at the level of exfat utilities in windows. And this software is licensed under the GNU General Public License Version 2.
So this is the correct one for TW, IMO
??? -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet oftc
On 4/2/2023 21:15, Felix Miata wrote:
# zypse exfat | exfat-utils | package | 1.4.0-1.2 | x86_64 | OSS | exfatprogs | package | 1.2.0-1.2 | x86_64 | OSS | fuse-exfat | package | 1.4.0-1.1 | x86_64 | OSS # zypper info exfat-utils ... These utils/progs packages seem to be the same thing. Are they? Which should I install for making and maintaining USB sticks that both Win10 and Linux like? Other than exfat-utils has a newer latest release on github, what's the difference? Is fuse required additionally, or instead? Is it only intended for use with older kernels lacking exfat support?
If you look at the upstream URLs, you will see that fuse-exfat and exfat-utils are provided by the same source. exfatprogs is a different implementation of what appears to be the same functionality as exfat-utils (i.e. programs to make, check etc exfat filesystems). FUSE is the userspace filesystem framework. So whereas presumably the kernel has builtin exfat support, fuse-exfat would allow you to use FUSE to make mounts of exfat FS as a regular user. -- Jason Craig
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