I have an microSD card with 64GB capacity which has exFAT file system. If I insert it to my card reader, it is mounted automatically. But I am looking for a command to format the card. I installed exfat-fuse
and exfat-utils
, but could not find proper command to format my microSD card.
2 Answers
Straight from apt-cache show exfat-utils
is the description:
Description-en: utilities to create, check, label and dump exFAT filesystem Utilities to manage extended file allocation table filesystem. This package provides tools to create, check and label the filesystem. It contains - dumpexfat to dump properties of the filesystem - exfatfsck / fsck.exfat to report errors found on a exFAT filesystem - exfatlabel to label a exFAT filesystem - mkexfatfs / mkfs.exfat to create a exFAT filesystem.
You would use mkfs.exfat
to format the partition, the same as you would use mkfs.fat
to format a normal FAT partition.
open the terminal:
1/ type "man mkfs.exfat", to read how to use it.
2/ type "sudo fdisk -l", to determine where your sd card is mounted. example: /dev/sdc
3/ to format a 128gb SD card and give it the name of "sdxc128",
type "sudo mkfs.exfat -n sdxc128 /dev/sdc"