Having trouble mounting an external disk

[Jason Spatafore]

exFAT is a new FS type to handle larger disks. (Windows format)

Answer likely here for you.

You'll likely just need to do the following commands

sudo apt install exfat-fuse exfat-utils


On 4/28/19 5:07 PM, David Lopez wrote:
> hi guys & gals
>
> bought an external usb3 disk, Western Digital 3 Tera-bytes.
> my Ubuntu try's to automatically mount on /media/david
> (david is my user name) which is the standard mount point
> for all of the other external disks i have tried successfully
> (Toshiba, Seagate).
>
> The error code is "unknown filesystem type "exfat".
>
> I found it by looking at the "My Book" dir under the /media dir using 
> the "Files" app.
>
> i'll certainly go the wd web site unless you guys have a remedy.
>
> david
>
> -- 
> David López
>
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