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Is there a simple way to add exFAT support? [duplicate]

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How to get a drive formatted with exfat working? 4 answers

When I insert a USB stick or camera ash card I get the following error:
unknown filesystem type 'exfat'

Is there a simple way to add exFAT support to Ubuntu without kernel

patching?

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StalkerNOVA
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Galgalesh
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Asked
Nov 25 '10 at 3:57

Edited
Nov 14 '14 at 20:54

marked as duplicate by Seth Nov 14 '14 at 21:21

This question has been asked before and already has an answer. If those answers do not fully
address your question, please ask a new question.

Three years later, the answers below do not work. The PPA 404'd so I'm assuming is
no longer maintained. Solution: I used a dierent USB stick. Will reformat this one in
Windows. Chris K May 28 '13 at 18:19
Worked for me on 2013-06-28 for Ubuntu 12.04. mivk Jun 28 '13 at 10:23

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Ubuntu 14.04 and 14.10 (13.10 and

higher)

Adding additional ppas is no longer required. Also, it seems

fuse-exfat is no longer installable. The package to install is now
named exfat-fuse and is available by default (universe repository).
The package exfat-utils will also add the usual lesystem
management tools including this package. Also thanks to this
answer
sudo apt-get install exfat-fuse exfat-utils

Ubuntu 12.04 (13.04 and lower)

A more detailed, step-to-step description on how to use the PPA
pointed to by StalkerNOVA can be found on stackoverow, copied
here for the sake of completeness:
Do only once:
1. Add the repository: sudo add-apt-repository
ppa:relan/exfat

2. Update the package list: sudo apt-get update

3. Install the exfat package: sudo apt-get install fuse-exfat
4. Create the mount folder: sudo mkdir /media/exfat
Everytime you want to access sdxc the card/exfat lesystem:
5. Mount the lesystem (replace sdc1 with your exfat partition):
sudo mount -t exfat /dev/sdc1 /media/exfat On some
devices, cameras, for locked sdxc cards etc you might want to
mount the lesystem read only, just add -o ro to the mount
command line: sudo mount -t exfat -o ro /dev/sdc1
/media/exfat

6. Read and write to /media/exfat to your heart's desire.

7. When you are done, unmount the lesystem: sudo umount
/media/exfat

The sdc1 in the step-by-step above refers to the linux device where
your card/exfat lesystem resides on. If this changes (usb card
readers, cameras) or you simply don't know which one it could be
either use the menu system System -> Administration -> Disk
Util and usually you will nd your camera or card reader in the list
on the left hand side. Or - as a quick shortcut - use cat
/proc/partitions on a terminal command line. The latter is only
useful if you know all the other unchanging device names on your
system and thus can quickly identify the one added one.

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Dec 5 '11 at 22:52

Seth
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Nov 14 '14 at 21:14

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With Ubuntu 12.04, you only need points 1 to 3 (add ppa, update, install).
Automount will work as usual. mivk Jun 28 '13 at 10:33

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Google showed the answer... https://launchpad.net/~relan

/+archive/exfat

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StalkerNOVA
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Nov 25 '10 at 3:59

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Whilst this may theoretically answer the question, it would be preferable to

include the essential parts of the answer here, and provide the link for
reference. Eliah Kagan Jan 9 '13 at 1:17

The better answer is askubuntu.com/a/85459/36661 MountainX Nov 3

'13 at 16:29

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For Ubuntu 14.04 there is a package called exfat-fuse. The following

worked for me:
sudo apt-get install exfat-fuse

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Craig Taverner
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Jul 9 '14 at 16:35

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