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exfatprogs 1.3.2 Brings Improvements To mkfs.exfat, fsck.exfat

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For those making use of Microsoft's exFAT file-system under Linux, tagged today was exfatprogs 1.3.2 as the newest update to these open-source user-space programs for going along with the Linux kernel's exFAT file-system driver.

Most of the work in exfatprogs 1.3.2 involves improvements to the mkfs.extfat utility for making exFAT file-systems.

The mkfs.exfat utility will now discard blocks prior to write-outs by default. There is also a now read-after-write verification step for the volume boot record with mkfs.exfat.

For fsck.exfat to provide a file-system check of exFAT file-systems, there is now a built-in option for providing a TUI progress bar when checking the file-system.

Plus there are various other bug fixes to be found with this updated exfatprogs. Those interested in all the details on this exfatprogs update can find it on [1]GitHub .



[1] https://github.com/exfatprogs/exfatprogs/releases/tag/1.3.2



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