Also, it would be cool to have default support already in initrd.gz - as already mentioned earlier, large thumb-drives become more and more common, exFat is the most common choice for these large drives. To boot from exFat drives one needs to hack the needed libs and binaries into the the initrd.gz as described in http://borgernet.com/blog/14/booting- ubuntu-isos-on-exfat/
Having this integrated as default (if legally possible) would be... visionary -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-meta in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1434603 Title: Ubuntu should add default support for exFAT partitions Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: If a USB pendrive containing an exFAT partition is connected, Ubuntu can't mount the partition. Test has been done on a Vivid amd64 live system using today's daily ISO. Steps to reproduce: 1- Insert an USB pendrive containing an exFAT partition 2- The partition is not automatically mounted 3- Trying to manually mount the partition via the terminal shows this output: mount: unknown filesystem type 'exfat' Steps to fix the issue: 1- Install packages exfat-fuse and exfat-utils exFAT pendrives are more and more common in newer devices, and this issue is not easily fixable by the average John Doe. We should add the two packages above to the seeds and grant default support to our users. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-meta/+bug/1434603/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
