fuse-exfat
It looks like SailfishOS 3 has included auto-mounting of exfat partitions (?).
fuse-exfat is a read and write driver implementing the extended file allocation table as a filesystem in userspace. A mounthelper is provided under the name mount.exfat-fuse
Source code homepage: https://github.com/relan/exfat/
I, olebr, just added a rpm-spec-file, and made it compile on my Sailfish X.
Category:
Application versions:
| Attachment | Size | Date |
|---|---|---|
 fuse-exfat-1.2.7-1.armv7hl.rpm | 23.21 KB | 15/01/2018 - 14:01 |
| fuse-exfat-1.3.0-1.armv7hl.rpm | 27.58 KB | 05/05/2020 - 01:08 |
Changelog:
- Added .spec-file to build rpm-package
- (For source code changelog check fuse-exfat-1.3.0 on github)
Comments
pakman
Mon, 2020/05/04 - 17:50
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This no longer seems to work with SFOS 3.2 or 3.3: I get a message in the Storage part of Settings that "The file system is incompatible. Formatting is needed". The volume's label does appear, and the devices /dev/sda and /dev/sda1 are created. I have no problems mounting the same SDXC card on a computer running openSUSE Linux. Perhaps a rebuild of this package and of exfat-utils is needed?
olebr
Tue, 2020/05/05 - 01:25
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Have now updated the rpm-packages for both fuse-exfat and exfat-utils.
But in SOFS 3.2+ it looks like the exfat support is built in... ?
(I tested by connecting my Panasonic cam by USB, and it is auto-mounted as exfat with and without the fuse-exfat package installed).
So mayby You need to manually mount with use of the fuse-exfat-1.3.0, by doing:
#$ mount -t exfat-fuse /dev/sda1 /mnt/exfat
levone1
Wed, 2020/08/12 - 04:16
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Do you know which file(s) in Jolla system are responsible for auto-mounting exfat? I may have inadvertently removed them while messing around with this. I am still able to mount manually using mount.exfat command from your package, but would like to get auto mount back.
My story is here - https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/usb-otg-help-xperia-x/1474/4
pakman
Tue, 2020/05/05 - 12:24
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Thanks for trying, but it still doesn't work. It is a bit wierd: both 'mount -t exfat-fuse' and 'mount -t exfat' error out with 'unknown filesystem exfat-fuse/exfat', but using 'mount.exfat' does work, and 'mount -l' shows that it is mounted with type 'fuseblk' which is the same as on my linux laptop. 'lsblk -f' recognises the filesystem as 'exfat'. If I mount it under /run/media/nemo/<somedir> then Gallery picks up the pictures on the card, but the storage manager still looks like it did in my screenshot.
I have tried both using a generic SD card reader, and by connecting my (Sony) camera directly, with the same results. I'll need to do a bit more investigation when I have some time, and I will probably take it up on TJC if I need input from any experts.
ntninja
Mon, 2020/08/17 - 22:30
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After spending way too much time anaylzing this today, I realized that the issue is not in udisks2 (as I originally assumed), but in util-linux (the package containing the mount command among other things). Had I read pakman's comment more carefully I would have probably realized this earlier… Anyways, after realizing this I took a quick look at the source and decided to use the venerable strace to get some runtime behaviour data. Turns out mount doesn't actually look in /usr/sbin/ for the mount.exfat helper binary (anymore?), only in /sbin/, /sbin/fs/ & /sbin/fs.d/ (the later two paths don't actually exists). Weird but OK…
TL;DR:
Note: Settings app will show the SDCard as incompatible and suggest formatting it, but it will be mounted and displayed as SDCard everywhere regardless.
ferlanero
Tue, 2018/01/16 - 18:00
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If someone want to add automount support to Sailfish olebr exFat implementation, just follow this steps: https://openrepos.net/content/ferlanero/usb-stick-utils-automount-exfat-support