dosfstools
dosfstools consists of the programs mkfs.fat, fsck.fat and fatlabel to create, check and label file systems of the FAT family. (by dosfstools)
apfsprogs
Experimental APFS tools for linux (by linux-apfs)
| dosfstools | apfsprogs | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1 | |
| 240 | 91 | |
| 2.1% | - | |
| 2.6 | 7.6 | |
| 25 days ago | 5 days ago | |
| C | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
dosfstools
Posts with mentions or reviews of dosfstools.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-21.
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[Hi, we found those typos in your man pages, can you fix these?] "Well, reporting issue with description of changes which cannot be applied automatically […] just take lot of more developer time." *proceeds to argue over the following months*
The patch:
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Creating a FAT filesystem on a file
Download a release at https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/releases and extract it
apfsprogs
Posts with mentions or reviews of apfsprogs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-20.
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How to a view a macos drive
Also potentially useful: apfs-fuse and apfsprogs.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing dosfstools and apfsprogs you can also consider the following projects:
exfatprogs - exFAT filesystem userspace utilities
apfs-fuse - FUSE driver for APFS (Apple File System)
squashfs-tools-ng - A new set of tools and libraries for working with SquashFS images
linux-apfs-rw - APFS module for linux, with experimental write support
squashfs-tools - tools to create and extract Squashfs filesystems
termux-packages - A package build system for Termux.
genext2fs - genext2fs - ext2 filesystem generator for embedded systems
nnn - n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager