FreeBSD: Support automatic detection and mounting of ext2/3/4, exFAT, NTFS filesystems #1350
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Allows --filesystem=ext2/3/4 option to be used in CLI. In CoreFreeBSD::MountFilesystem blkid is used in attempt to detect which filesystem the device contains. If this is Ext, we change the chosen filesystem to ext2fs. Similarly if specified filesystem through CLI starts with Ext, we change the chosen filesystem to ext2fs.
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Currently the
mountimplementation on FreeBSD does not support automatic filesystem detection on mount. We can alternatively useblkidwhich allows us to detect the filesystem that is contained on the virtual device before we attempt to mount the filesystem. Theblkidprogram is part of thee2fsprogspackage, which also provides the ext2/3/4 driver and is very likely to be installed on the user's system, if not, it will silently fail and behave like it has previously.This patch adds support for automatic mounting of:
e2fsprogs)fusefs-exfat)fusefs-ntfs)Related: #576