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diff --git a/exfat/README.md b/exfat/README.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..3cf58b7e2 --- /dev/null +++ b/exfat/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ +About +----- + +This project aims to provide a full-featured [exFAT][1] file system implementation for Unix-like systems. It consists of a [FUSE][2] module (fuse-exfat) and a set of utilities (exfat-utils). + +Supported operating systems: + +* GNU/Linux +* Mac OS X 10.5 or later +* FreeBSD +* OpenBSD + +Most GNU/Linux distributions already have fuse-exfat and exfat-utils in their repositories, so you can just install and use them. The next chapter describes how to compile them from source. + +Compiling +--------- + +To build this project under GNU/Linux you need to install the following packages: + +* git +* autoconf +* automake +* pkg-config +* fuse-devel (or libfuse-dev) +* gcc +* make + +Get the source code, change directory and compile: + + git clone https://github.com/relan/exfat.git + cd exfat + autoreconf --install + ./configure --prefix=/usr + make + +Then install driver and utilities: + + sudo make install + +You can remove them using this command: + + sudo make uninstall + +Mounting +-------- + +Modern GNU/Linux distributions will mount exFAT volumes automatically—util-linux-ng 2.18 (was renamed to util-linux in 2.19) is required for this. Anyway, you can mount manually (you will need root privileges): + + sudo mount.exfat-fuse /dev/sdXn /mnt/exfat + +where /dev/sdXn is the partition special file, /mnt/exfat is a mountpoint. + +Feedback +-------- + +If you have any questions, issues, suggestions, bug reports, etc. please create an [issue][3]. Pull requests are also welcome! + +[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT +[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace +[3]: https://github.com/relan/exfat/issues |