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fsck.exfat Can Now Check & Repair Filenames With Invalid Characters


For those making use of Microsoft's exFAT file-system on Linux systems, the user-space programs within exfatprogs have been updated that also include more robust 'fsck.exfat' capabilities for checking and repairing exFAT file-systems.

For those making use of Microsoft's exFAT file-system on Linux systems, the user-space programs within exfatprogs have been updated that also include more robust "fsck.exfat" capabilities for checking and repairing exFAT file-systems. The fsck.exfat utility within exfatprogs-1.2.5 is now able to check and repair exFAT file-systems where the filename(s) contain invalid characters. The updated exfatprogs also removes a limitation on the device path length not exceeding 254 bytes.

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