Re: Having trouble mounting an external disk

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
>
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