[Libguestfs] mount: unknown filesystem type 'exfat'

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Sun, Oct 02, 2016 at 08:07:35AM -1000, Miles Wolbe wrote:
> > On Oct 2, 2016, at 02:27, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > guestfish or libguestfs don't support filesystems.  It's whatever
> > is supported by the kernel.
> > 
> > exFAT is apparently not supported by the Linux kernel, but there is a
> > FUSE driver for it called exfat-fuse (as you found out).
> > 
> > So if you add exfat-fuse and maybe exfat-utils to the appliance,
> > it should work, ie:
> > 
> >  # echo exfat-fuse   > /usr/lib*/guestfs/supermin.d/zz-exfat
> >  # echo exfat-utils >> /usr/lib*/guestfs/supermin.d/zz-exfat
> > 
> > (Note the package names might be different.  Apparently in RPMfusion
> > it's called fuse-exfat.)
> 
> Awesome! Thanks very much Rich. That worked perfectly!
> 
> In Fedora 24 x64:
> 
> # echo fuse-exfat > /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d/zz-exfat
> # echo exfat-utils >> /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d/zz-exfat
> 
> In Linux Mint 18 x64:
> 
> # echo exfat-fuse > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/guestfs/supermin.d/zz-exfat
> # echo exfat-utils >> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/guestfs/supermin.d/zz-exfat
> 
> $ guestfish -a disk.img 
> ><fs> run
> ><fs> list-filesystems 
> /dev/sda1: exfat
> ><fs> mount /dev/sda1 /
> ><fs> ls /
> foo
> bar
> baz
> etc

Thanks for testing.  I've just posted a patch so we can include
this upstream.

Rich.

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