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On Sat, 20 Mar 2021 16:22:45 +0100, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: |
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> in a recent Heise article (in German) at |
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> https://www.heise.de/news/SystemRescue-8-00-GnuPG-Schluessel-im-Notfall-einfach-ausdrucken-5078896.html?wt_mc=nl.red.ho.ho-nl-windows.2021-03-15.link.link |
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> about "SystemRescue" the author mentions among other things that the old |
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> packet "exfat-utils" has been replaced with the more modern alternative |
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> "exfatprogs". |
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> Gentoo provides both packages. Up to now I have installed "exfat-utils" |
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> most probably due to some recommendation in the Gentoo Handbook. Can |
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> anybody comment on the pros and cons of either package? |
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Looking at the github readme, it wold appear that exfat-progs is for use |
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with the new in-kernel exfat fs, while exfat-utils is a companion to the |
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older FUSE implementation of exfat. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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WORM: (n.) acronym for Write Once, Read Mangled. Used to describe a |
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normally-functioning computer disk of the very latest design. |
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