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Bug 701317 - gparted 0.16.1 is unable to handle exFAT format in Linux Ubuntu
gparted 0.16.1 is unable to handle exFAT format in Linux Ubuntu
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 639760
Product: gparted
Classification: Other
Component: application
0.16.1
Other Linux
: Normal major
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Assigned To: gparted maintainers alias
gparted maintainers alias
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-05-30 22:39 UTC by pascal_mons
Modified: 2013-05-31 01:11 UTC
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Description pascal_mons 2013-05-30 22:39:32 UTC 
On Ubuntu Precise-Updates 12.04, I compiled and installed parted 3.1 (i.e. the latest version from GNU Parted) and the latest version of gparted 0.16.1. I Took care to install the packages exfat-utils and fuse-exfat. I performed a test using the command line to format  partition in exFAT :

$ sudo mkfs.exfat -n bios_grub /dev/sdb2
[sudo] password for jean: 
mkexfatfs 1.0.1
Creating... done.
Flushing... done.
File system created successfully.
$ 

This worked. However when opening Gparted the format to exfat is greyed out permanently and when asking for detailed information about the partition I formatted using CLI I get a warning : 

"Unable to read the contents of this file system!
Because of this some operations may be unavailable."

I did test hfs+ and it is working.
Comment 1 Patrick Verner 2013-05-30 23:30:15 UTC 
Works fine in Parted Magic with the same versions. Interesting...

Is Util-linux in Ubuntu 12.04 is too old?
Comment 2 Curtis Gedak 2013-05-31 01:11:11 UTC 
Due to potential legal issues, GParted does not support creating exfat file systems.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 639760 ***