Having trouble mounting an external disk

Stephen Partington cryptworks at gmail.com
Sun Apr 28 17:44:37 MST 2019


Also note, While Linux does have an ExFat option. the Linux ExFat is very
different than the Windows ExFat.


On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 5:17 PM Jason Spatafore <jason_online at spatafore.net>
wrote:

> 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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