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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: rsutter on August 13, 2018, 10:48:04 AM

Title: exFat Formatting Option Greyed Out in GParted but Available in PartedMagic
Post by: rsutter on August 13, 2018, 10:48:04 AM
Hello All,
At the SLO Bytes Linux meeting of 08/09/18, I observed that the disk partitioning utility, GParted greyed out the option to format a disk in exFat.  Supposedly, this ability was removed to avoid conflicts with Microsoft, the owner of the format.
Today, I opened GParted from inside PartedMagic version 2018_04_30.  exFat was not greyed out and I successfully formatted a partition to that scheme.

Before I was able to read or write to the exFat drive, I had to install a program via the terminal.  Open the terminal and type sudo apt-get install exfat-fuse exfat-utils

Ralph Sutter