gnome-disks can't create exfat partitions on Hirsute with the Samsung provided tools.
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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udisks2 (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Sebastien Bacher | ||
Hirsute |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
* Impact
When on Hirsute with the new Samsung provided exfat support, gnome-disks can't create new exfat partitions due to being hardcoded to use the old mkexfatfs program from the exfat-utils package. The solution is to use mkfs.exfat which is provided by the old exfat-utils as well as the new exfatprogs.
* Test Case
- connect a device to format of your choice
- $ apt install exfatprogs
- start gnome-disks
- select the device or partition to format
- select other -> exfat as filesystem type
- confirm the format
-> the device should get formatted without error
* Impact
The change is in the section defining the commands to use for exfat so limited to this filesystem. Check that changing label or formatting is working with exfatprogs but also keeps working with exfat-utils
affects: | gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu) → udisks2 (Ubuntu) |
Changed in udisks2 (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
description: | updated |
Thanks, indeed that's an udisks issue, I've reported it on https:/ /github. com/storaged- project/ udisks/ issues/ 882 now