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I have a flashdrive that is formatted with exfat where I store all my documents and such. I have successfully used it with ArchLinux and Nautilus, where it auto-mounted when plugged in without any issues once I installed the proper utilities.

With Xubuntu 14.10 64-bit, I am having a problem. With the utilities installed (fuse-exfat exfat-utils) I can manually mount the exfat drive as root, and this works fine. But when I plug it into the computer, Thunar simply refuses to auto-mount it or even show it in the sidebar. How can I get this to work? It's really annoying to have to manually mount it when I know there's a better way.

I have all updates installed, and no PPA's on the system. This is a completely fresh install, besides VLC and Google Chrome.

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  • That's really weird. I use XFCE on my daily driver, but all of my storage devices I use every day are ext4 or NTFS. I'll try to find one that uses fat to see if I can replicate.
    – RobotHumans
    Commented Jan 22, 2015 at 22:41
  • Please remember to format as EXfat not FAT or FAT32. FAT and FAT32 partitions automount fine, but EXFAT partitions don't. I use EXFAT because it supports read/write on all operating systems including OSX and doesn't have the 4GB filesize limit of FAT32.
    – Degru
    Commented Jan 24, 2015 at 4:01

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