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Auto-mount exFAT devices in Ubuntu

exFAT is natively supported by OSX and Windows (even XP!) the only thing was to make it work with Ubuntu. So here we go:

Execute these commands one by one
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:relan/exfat
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install fuse-exfat

Now we are able to manualy mount exFAT-formatted drives. To automate it we have to install couple more things:
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install ncurses-dev
sudo apt-get install util-linux

Everything should be working nicely now

Troubleshooting:
If repository cannot be added:
sudo -E add-apt-repository ppa:relan/exfat
If install failed, because of fuse-utils:
sudo apt-get install exfat-fuse exfat-utils
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  1. Jason FooteMay 13, 2013 at 9:55 AM

    I am getting an error still when I try to mount the drive:
    Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: ERROR: `._.com.apple.timemachine.donotpresent' has invalid checksum (0xf8f0 != 0xf300).


    Any idea how to get around that problem?
    thank you, Chaithanya

    ReplyDelete

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