You get this error because the exfat filesystem is not installed in Ubuntu by default. exFAT is proprietary and patented by Microsoft.
Ubuntu 13.10 or higher
Since Ubuntu 13.10, this package is in the main repository. Just install exfat-fuse
and exfat-utils
:
sudo apt update && sudo apt install exfat-fuse exfat-utils
Ubuntu 12.04
For ubuntu 13.04 and lower, you'll need a ppa to install the exfat
support. Installation procedure:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:relan/exfat
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install fuse-exfat
If you see the error gpg: "tag:launchpad.net:2008:redacted" not a key ID: skipping
during the apt-add-repository
step, then you'll need to manually install the signing key and run the apt-get update
and apt-get install
steps after that:
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 4DF9B28CA252A784
sudo add-apt-repository universe
sudo apt-get update