[parted-devel] ExFAT support

[Pascal Hambourg]

On 20/03/2026 at 22:21, Brian C. Lane wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 14, 2026 at 05:37:27PM +0100, Victor Couty wrote:
>>
>> I would like to add support for the ExFAT filesystem to parted. This
>> includes displaying correctly ExFAT partitions and interpreting "exfat" as a
>> correct entry when specifying the fs type upon partition creation.
> 
> Thanks, a couple things -- your email mangled the patch (seems to be
> missing some blank lines) so it didn't apply cleanly. It also needs
> tests, at least t1700 needs to check that it is detected correctly. I
> threw this in quickly and discovery isn't working right, it is reported
> as msdos.

IIUC t1700 creates the filesystem in the entire device (not in a 
partition), so I suspect that parted probes disk labels first and 
msdos_probe() wrongly detects a msdos label and should be patched to 
exclude exFAT as it does with FAT.