Bug 254191

Summary: FreeBSD Handbook: Storage: exFat and FAT32
Product: Documentation Reporter: Steven Friedrich <Steven.E.Friedrich>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc>
Status: Open ---    
Severity: Affects Some People CC: pauamma
Priority: --- Keywords: needs-patch
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   
URL: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-doc/blob/main/documentation/content/en/books/handbook/disks/_index.adoc
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 263315    

Description Steven Friedrich 2021-03-10 14:40:10 UTC 
Handbook Chapter 18 should include a section describing using exFat filesystems, and FAT32 filesystems.

exfat requires using fuse-exfat port and using mount.exfat command.
Comment 1 Steven Friedrich 2021-03-12 00:03:22 UTC 
I placed a request upstream to get a man page for mount.exfat.
https://github.com/relan/exfat/issues/168
Comment 2 Graham Perrin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2021-06-29 20:46:24 UTC 
Maybe mention: 

mount.exfat-fuse
Comment 3 Pau Amma 2022-02-15 23:12:01 UTC 
(In reply to Steven Friedrich from comment #0)
Suggestion: rename current 18.8 (Using NTFS Disks) to "using Microsoft™ disk formats" or some such and add to it (with https://github.com/relan/exfat/blob/v1.3.0/fuse/mount.exfat-fuse.8 or the then-latest version as a reference), unless the procedure differs in more than the file system type name, which I doubt.

Unfortunately, https://github.com/search?p=2&q=fat32+fuse&type=Repositories doesn't return anything promising for FAT32. No request in https://wiki.freebsd.org/WantedPorts that I can see, and I couldn't figure out how to search Bitbucket for project names before running out of attention span. (Does anyone know, or are there other public repo-hosting services I could search?)
Comment 4 Pau Amma 2022-04-18 03:36:41 UTC 
(In reply to PauAmma from comment #3)

Making a note that someone told me privately FAT32 is in-tree in msdosfs.
Comment 5 Graham Perrin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2022-05-03 04:33:56 UTC 
> FAT32

Cross-reference: <https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/565692>.

Also (discussion of content in an older topic, about layout) <https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/561843> and the subsequent post, from me; some overlap with <https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/faq/#removable-drives>.
Comment 6 Graham Perrin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2022-12-30 05:23:19 UTC 
<https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/disks/>

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