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)
exfatprogs
exFAT filesystem userspace utilities (by exfatprogs)
dosfstools | exfatprogs | |
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3 | 2 | |
240 | 173 | |
2.1% | 0.6% | |
2.6 | 6.0 | |
26 days ago | 12 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.
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
exfatprogs
Posts with mentions or reviews of exfatprogs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
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Swapping Sd cards
Other than that the phones/tablets recognize the cards by their "serial" in the filesystem. You can manipulate it with standard tools: https://github.com/exfatprogs/exfatprogs
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Why is exfatprogs not in the focal repositories?
There is a new exFAT implementation, introduced with kernel 5.7. Ubuntu 20.04 runs on kernel 5.8, so it has the new implementation, but the programs to manipulate exFAT aren't in the repos. These programs are in newer versions of Ubuntu, so I don't see why they wouldn't be in 20.04. The exfat-utils package is for the old FUSE implementation, which is very slow.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing dosfstools and exfatprogs you can also consider the following projects:
squashfs-tools-ng - A new set of tools and libraries for working with SquashFS images
webMAN-MOD - Extended services for PS3 console (web server, ftp server, netiso, ntfs, ps3mapi, etc.)
squashfs-tools - tools to create and extract Squashfs filesystems
uefi-ntfs - UEFI:NTFS - Boot NTFS or exFAT partitions from UEFI