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This article mainly introduces "how to mount and use exFAT drive on Ubuntu/Linux". In daily operation, I believe many people have doubts about how to mount and use exFAT drive on Ubuntu/Linux. Xiaobian consulted all kinds of materials and sorted out simple and easy-to-use methods of operation. I hope it will be helpful to answer the questions of "how to mount and use exFAT drive on Ubuntu/Linux". Next, please follow the editor to study!

Summary: this tutorial will show you how to enable exFAT file system support on Ubuntu and other Ubuntu-based Linux distributions. When you mount an exFAT drive on your system in this way, you will not see an error message.

There is a problem mounting the exFAT disk on Ubuntu

One day, I tried to use a USB disk formatted in exFAT, which contained files about the size of 10GB. As soon as I insert the USB drive, my Ubuntu 16.04 will throw an error saying that the unknown file system type 'exfat' cannot be mounted.

The exact error message goes like this:

Error mounting / dev/sdb1 at / media/abhishek/SHADI DATA: Command-line `mount- t "exfat"-o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1001,gid=1001,iocharset=utf8,namecase=0,errors=remount-ro,umask=0077" / dev/sdb1 "" / media/abhishek/SHADI DATA "`exited with non-zero exit status 32: mount: unknown filesystem type 'exfat'exFAT mount error reason

Microsoft's favorite FAT file system is limited to 4GB files. You cannot transfer files larger than 4GB to the FAT drive. In order to overcome the limitation of FAT file system, Microsoft launched exFAT file system in 2006.

Since most Microsoft-related things are proprietary, the exFAT file format is no exception. Ubuntu and many other Linux distributions do not provide proprietary exFAT file support by default. This is why you see a mount error in the exFAT file.

How to mount an exFAT drive on Ubuntu Linux

Fix exFAT mount error on Ubuntu Linux

It is easy to solve this problem. All you have to do is enable exFAT support.

I'll show the commands in Ubuntu, but this should apply to other Ubuntu-based distributions, such as Linux Mint, elementary OS, and so on.

Open the terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T shortcut key in Ubuntu) and use the following command:

Sudo apt install exfat-fuse exfat-utils

After installing these packages, go to the file manager and click the USB disk again to mount it. There is no need to reinsert the USB. It should be able to mount directly.

At this point, the study on "how to mount and use the exFAT drive on Ubuntu/Linux" is over. I hope to be able to solve your doubts. The collocation of theory and practice can better help you learn, go and try it! If you want to continue to learn more related knowledge, please continue to follow the website, the editor will continue to work hard to bring you more practical articles!

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