[Bug 244461] gpart: Shows exFat as NTFS

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Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:37:40 UTC

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=244461

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 compatibility
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 contain
> 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" for
                            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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