Re: Add sub-topic on 'exFAT' in man mount

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On Sun, Nov 26, 2023 at 5:59 PM Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 2023-11-21 15:55 GMT+09:00, Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 04:55:18PM -0600, Seamus de Mora wrote:
> >> I'd like to volunteer to add some information to the mount manual.
> >>
> >> I'm told that exFAT was added to the kernel about 4 years ago, but
> >> last I checked, there was nothing about it in man mount.  I feel this
> >> could be addressed best by adding a sub-topic on exFAT under the topic
> >> `FILESYSTEM-SPECIFIC MOUNT OPTIONS`.
> >>
> >> If my application is of interest, please let me know what steps I need
> >> to take - or how to approach this task.
> >>
> >
> > I'm adding from Alejandro's reply.
> >
> > You can start reading the source in fs/exfat in linux.git tree [1].
> > Then you can write the documentation for exfat in Documentation/exfat.rst
> > (currently doesn't exist yet), at the same time of your manpage
> > contribution.
> >
> > Cc'ing exfat maintainers for better treatment.
> Thanks Bagas for forwarding this to us!
>
> Hi Seamus,
>
> Some of mount options are same with fatfs's ones. You can refer the
> descriptions of fatfs
> documentation(Documentation/filesystems/vfat.rst).
> If you have any questions about other options or documentation for
> exfat, please give an email me.
>
> Thanks!
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > [1]:
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/fs/exfat

Thanks for the offer Namjae; I'm sure I'll take you up on that when I
get ready to actually produce something. For now, I am reading and
trying to get myself up to speed to tackle this. So far, the going has
been a bit slow as I have a couple of commitments I need to finish.

Rgds,
~S





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