emerald does not support exFat as external storage
- /e/ version: 1.2
- Device model(s): emerald
- Device rooted: yes/no
Summary
The external storage exFat is not supported by emerald, this filesystem is the most used by our users (windows users).
The problem
Steps to reproduce
Have a sdcard with exFat.
What is the current behavior?
The system asks for formatting.
What is the expected correct behavior?
The exfat sdcard partition is allowed, and the user can see its content with file manager.
Technical informations
sdcard info from my laptop:
# fdisk -l /dev/mmcblk0
Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 59.48 GiB, 63864569856 bytes, 124735488 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x1e9980f9
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/mmcblk0p1 2048 124735487 124733440 59.5G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
# mount |grep /dev/mmcblk0p1
/dev/mmcblk0p1 on /run/media/user/FAF7-FE97 type exfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,iocharset=utf8,errors=remount-ro,uhelper=udisks2)
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