genext2fs
genext2fs - ext2 filesystem generator for embedded systems (by bestouff)
exfatprogs
exFAT filesystem userspace utilities (by exfatprogs)
| genext2fs | exfatprogs | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | |
| 51 | 173 | |
| - | 0.6% | |
| 0.0 | 6.0 | |
| about 2 months ago | 9 days ago | |
| C | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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genext2fs
Posts with mentions or reviews of genext2fs.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-29.
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Tar is an ill-specified format
I also have written my own tar parser, in https://github.com/bestouff/genext2fs - oh boy it's not easy ! My parser is of course incomplete and won't handle corner cases, which are really plenty. In the end I added libarchive as an alternative to my hand-rolled code because that's how it works best.
exfatprogs
Posts with mentions or reviews of exfatprogs.
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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 genext2fs and exfatprogs you can also consider the following projects:
dracut - dracut the event driven initramfs infrastructure
webMAN-MOD - Extended services for PS3 console (web server, ftp server, netiso, ntfs, ps3mapi, etc.)
squashfs-tools-ng - A new set of tools and libraries for working with SquashFS images
uefi-ntfs - UEFI:NTFS - Boot NTFS or exFAT partitions from UEFI