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Date:      Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:37:40 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 244461] gpart: Shows exFat as NTFS
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Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> changed:

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--- Comment #18 from Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> ---
(In reply to freebsd from comment #15)
> If gpart can tell that a partition is exFAT

That's the issue, it cannot. The (MBR) partition type is 07h; it can contain
either an NTFS or exFAT filesystem.  If there were no backwards compatibili=
ty
issues I'd perhaps change the partition type name to ntfs-exfat.

(In reply to georg.lastname from comment #16)
> Then I suggest we change the documentation. "a ntfs partition that can co=
ntain
> either a ntfs or a exfat partition".

The gpart.8 man page has in the PARTITION TYPES section:

     ntfs                   A partition that contains a NTFS or exFAT
                            filesystem.  The scheme-specific type is "!7" f=
or
                            MBR.

If you have a suggestion about a documentation change that could make this =
more
clear I'm happy to entertain it.

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