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Old 27th March 2019
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Originally Posted by jayblingham View Post
The biggest confusion through all of this was that the FS type was being reported as NTFS by the disklabel utility. This was not the case however; as it turned out to be exFAT.
The virtual disklabel(8) only captures recognized partitions from the GPT or MBR partition table. It doesn't inspect the filesystems.

I've never used exFAT, so I don't know what MBR/GPT partition types it may use. If it uses x'07', the the kernel can't distinguish it from NTFS when it maps a virtual disklabel.
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...but wasn't expecting a resolution to something in my Intro thread
Well, our admins frown on using a single thread for multiple purposes, as it makes it hard to find the right thread when searching. But I'm glad you got the problem resolved!
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