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@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


---------------------------------------------------
PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
---------------------------------------------------
PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss


--
A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.

Stephen