Having trouble mounting an external disk

[David Lopez]

thanks all

installed the missing software (exfat-fuse exfat-utils).
works like a charm.

david

On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 5:45 PM Stephen Partington <cryptworks at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>>
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