Libguestfs - Oct 2016 - Re: mount: unknown filesystem type 'exfat'

> On Oct 2, 2016, at 02:27, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
wrote:
> 
> guestfish or libguestfs don't support filesystems.  It's whatever
> is supported by the kernel.
> 
> exFAT is apparently not supported by the Linux kernel, but there is a
> FUSE driver for it called exfat-fuse (as you found out).
> 
> So if you add exfat-fuse and maybe exfat-utils to the appliance,
> it should work, ie:
> 
>  # echo exfat-fuse   > /usr/lib*/guestfs/supermin.d/zz-exfat
>  # echo exfat-utils >> /usr/lib*/guestfs/supermin.d/zz-exfat
> 
> (Note the package names might be different.  Apparently in RPMfusion
> it's called fuse-exfat.)
Awesome! Thanks very much Rich. That worked perfectly!

In Fedora 24 x64:

# echo fuse-exfat > /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d/zz-exfat
# echo exfat-utils >> /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d/zz-exfat

In Linux Mint 18 x64:

# echo exfat-fuse > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/guestfs/supermin.d/zz-exfat
# echo exfat-utils >>
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/guestfs/supermin.d/zz-exfat

$ guestfish -a disk.img 
><fs> run
><fs> list-filesystems 
/dev/sda1: exfat
><fs> mount /dev/sda1 /
><fs> ls /
foo
bar
baz
etc

Gratefully,

Miles

On Sun, Oct 02, 2016 at 08:07:35AM -1000, Miles Wolbe
wrote:
> > On Oct 2, 2016, at 02:27, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
wrote:
> > 
> > guestfish or libguestfs don't support filesystems.  It's
whatever
> > is supported by the kernel.
> > 
> > exFAT is apparently not supported by the Linux kernel, but there is a
> > FUSE driver for it called exfat-fuse (as you found out).
> > 
> > So if you add exfat-fuse and maybe exfat-utils to the appliance,
> > it should work, ie:
> > 
> >  # echo exfat-fuse   > /usr/lib*/guestfs/supermin.d/zz-exfat
> >  # echo exfat-utils >> /usr/lib*/guestfs/supermin.d/zz-exfat
> > 
> > (Note the package names might be different.  Apparently in RPMfusion
> > it's called fuse-exfat.)
> 
> Awesome! Thanks very much Rich. That worked perfectly!
> 
> In Fedora 24 x64:
> 
> # echo fuse-exfat > /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d/zz-exfat
> # echo exfat-utils >> /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d/zz-exfat
> 
> In Linux Mint 18 x64:
> 
> # echo exfat-fuse >
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/guestfs/supermin.d/zz-exfat
> # echo exfat-utils >>
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/guestfs/supermin.d/zz-exfat
> 
> $ guestfish -a disk.img 
> ><fs> run
> ><fs> list-filesystems 
> /dev/sda1: exfat
> ><fs> mount /dev/sda1 /
> ><fs> ls /
> foo
> bar
> baz
> etc
Thanks for testing.  I've just posted a patch so we can include
this upstream.

Rich.

-- 
Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones
Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com
virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines.  Boot with a
live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests.
http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v

> On Oct 2, 2016, at 09:08, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
wrote:
> 
> Thanks for testing.  I've just posted a patch so we can include
> this upstream.
Right on - thanks very much!

And thanks for the shout-out in the patch notification - you are really
too kind in even mentioning me, as you certainly did all of the work.

Just added guestfish to this old guide I cobbled together 5 years ago:

Mounting partitions from full disk images
https://tinyapps.org/docs/mount_partitions_from_disk_images.html

My apologies for not having added it sooner!

Aloha,

Miles