21 September 2012

Ubuntu - ExFAT


This is how to make Ubuntu 12.04 mount exFAT formated drives. If you plug an external drive then it will be mounted automatically into  "/media" folder.

        $sudo add-apt-repository ppa:relan/exfat
        $sudo apt-get update
        $sudo apt-get install fuse-exfat exfat-utils

If you need to mount it manually then you should do this (change /dev/sdc1 with your partition):
        $sudo mkdir /media/exfat
        $sudo mount -t exfat /dev/sdc1 /media/exfat
To remove the drive, just do:
        $sudo umount /media/exfat


That's it!

Update:
On Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtale, the packages are in the main repository, so you only need to:
                    $sudo apt-get install fuse-exfat exfat-utils
and your disks will mount automatically upon insertion. -)