[parted-devel] ExFAT support

[Victor Couty]

Thanks,

Sorry about the patch being malformed again, i thought i had
found the right options to prevent this. I will use git send-email
in the future.

Thank you for manually fixing the patch and merging it.

Victor Couty

Le 29/06/2026 à 22:33, Brian C. Lane a écrit :
> On Sat, May 09, 2026 at 11:08:34PM +0200, Victor Couty wrote:
>> Here is the fixed version of the patch. Pascal was correct: t1700 formats
>> the entire device and msdos probe is executed first, returning a false
>> positive for an msdos label. My previous testing only included an actual
>> partition so i missed this case. I updated msdos_probe to add the check just
>> like FAT and NTFS. A full-disk ExFAT fs is now properly detected and all
>> tests are passing. ExFAT implementation ended up being very similar to NTFS.
> Thanks, I've tested this locally and pushed it to the master branch of
> parted. I'll add it to the rawhide version of parted on Fedora later
> today.
>
> Your patch was still malformed though, I had to clean it up a little --
> it looks like thunderbird is deleting blank lines which make the diff
> unable to apply. Luckily it was short enough I could manually tweak it.
>
> In the future could you try using git send-email instead?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian
>