Questions tagged [exfat]
exFAT (Extended File Allocation Table) is a proprietary file system designed especially for flash drives developed by Microsoft
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Mount error: "unknown filesystem type 'exfat'"
When trying to mount an exfat filesystem, I get the following error:
Error mounting /dev/sda6 at /media/gkp/Backup: Command-line
`mount -t "exfat" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid" "/dev/sda6" "/...
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How to get a drive formatted with exfat working?
In Ubuntu 13.04 there was an option to use the PPA by Relan in order to get ExFat functionality. Seeing that in Ubuntu this functionality is now available from the repositories without the PPA I tried ...
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How to enable exFAT in Ubuntu 14.04
I just installed Ubuntu 14.04 and I can't mount my exFAT HDD.
I get the following error:
Unable to access “SeagateHDD”
Error mounting /dev/sdb1 at /media/me/SeagateHDD: Command-line `mount -t "exfat"...
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Should I choose exFat or NTFS for a "shared" partition in a dual-boot system?
I have a new laptop which I am setting up as dual boot Windows/Linux.
I would like to access files from both Ubuntu and Windows 7.
Should I create a separate NTFS partition?
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How do I install and mount an exFAT partition? [duplicate]
I have searched around here and with Google, and none of the instructions I have found work with Oneric.
How do install exFAT and mount an exFAT partition in the latest release of Kubuntu?
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Is there a simple way to add exFAT support? [duplicate]
When I insert a USB stick or camera flash card I get the following error:
unknown filesystem type 'exfat'
Is there a simple way to add exFAT support to Ubuntu without kernel patching?
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Why is exfat greyed out in gparted? [duplicate]
I have installed both exfat-fuse and exfat-utils.
However, when I go to gparted, and attempt to format a partition as exFAT, the exfat option is greyed out when attempting to create or format a ...
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GUI tool for formating to exFAT
I just formated a partition to exFAT using the terminal command sudo mkfs.exfat -n. Is it possible to do the same thing using a GUI?
Before people comment that the Terminal command works just fine (...
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Ubuntu 18.04 does not mount 2TB exFat drive even after installing exfat-fuse exfat-utils
I've bought a new Seagate Expansion Portable Drive 2TB with exFat format. It works normally on Windows. On Ubuntu 18.04 I tried to mount the HD but failed.
I found advice to install exfat-fuse and ...
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Can I install Ubuntu on an exFAT hard drive?
I would like to know if it's possible to install Ubuntu on an exFAT hard drive, since Windows 8's drive admin utility only allow me to get NTFS and exFAT partitions.
Thanks in advance.
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Recover Partition Table for exFAT Partition
I unplugged my USB stick from Ubuntu 16.04 without the save remove option, but exfat should be fine doing so. No read write was happening, the partition does not use journaling. What I end up with is ...
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How to install exfat-nofuse?
Has anybody of you tried to install exfat-nofuse.
I am not sure how to install it. Compile it as a module, or recompile my kernel?...
Also, do i have to recompile it after every kernel update? Will ...
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How to fix exfat filesystem
So we accidentally caused our server to go down without a clean shutdown and now df is reporting wrong stats for the external usb (exfat).
root@srv1:/backup/usbdisk# df -h
Filesystem Size Used ...
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Can't mount 64 GB SDXC
I did a clean install of 13.04 and now I'm having a hard time mounting my SD card. I had it working on my old system, which was also 13.04 but I had upgraded from 12.04. I can't figure out how to get ...
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How to enable exFAT for Ubuntu 20.04
Today I installed a fresh copy of Ubuntu 20.04 (GNU/Linux 5.4.0-1008-raspi aarch64) on my Raspberry PI, and I know that exFAT should be supported by the 5.4 kernel, but whenever I try to mount an ...
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20.04 and exfat
I am having some odd issues with Ubuntu Budgie 20.04 and exfat file systems.
If I insert an exfat formatted sd card or mount an exfat partition everything works fine. But from a fresh install Gnome ...
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Cannot mount usb hard drive
I'm using Ubuntu 18.04 and I am trying to mount a usb hard drive.
The fdisk output:
Disk /dev/sdb: 465.8 GiB, 500107837440 bytes, 976773120 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size ...
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exFAT micro SD not detected Ubuntu 18.04.1
128GB Micro SD card with exFAT partition does not get detected on my Ubuntu 18.04.1. I have installed exfat-fuse and exfat-utils but nothing happened when I try to reinsert the card. I can't see the ...
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How to format an external 64GB SD card (exfat) using command line?
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 ...
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Accidentally used NTFS fix on exFAT external USB HDD, now it's corrupted in Windows
I'm trying to solve another issue with Windows, so I was going to backup my laptop SSD with my hard drive through Ubuntu but it couldn't read it, because it was in exFAT... so I used this command in ...
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22.04 does not include exfat-utils
I'm getting the error unknown filesystem type 'exfat' and have seen all the posts and articles that reference installing exfat-utils and exfat-fuse. However, exfat-utils is not available under 22.04 ...
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How to automount HPFS/NTFS (exFAT) 64GB microSD card on 10.04?
When trying to mount my 64GB microSD card, it fails. Did a bit of research and found I needed exfat.
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:relan/exfat
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install fuse-exfat
I can ...
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Trying to create UDEV rule to mount removable drive exfat partition
So I am trying to create a udev rule to automatically mount a drives exfat partition to /media/offsite. My goal is to automatically mount a drive to /media/offsite and then kick off a .sh script to ...
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Lubuntu exFAT: Timed out waiting for device
I'm dual booting macOS and Lubuntu. I created a /data partition for sharing data between the two OS, and formatted it to exFAT as follows (NTFS is not an option because there is no free driver for it ...
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SD Card reporting Date created in the future
Recently I swapped out the SD Card on my camera for an identical replacement.
The card is formatted by the camera as exFat.
After taking a few sample shots with the new card, I inserted the card to ...
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Problem with automount and exfat fstype
I need some help to configure automount with exfat filesystem (no problem with ext4 for example).
$ sudo automount -f -v
$ ls /home/user/automount
Automount return this error.
mounted direct on /...
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