{"id":9938,"date":"2020-04-05T14:44:49","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T14:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=9938"},"modified":"2020-04-05T14:44:49","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T14:44:49","slug":"fix-unknown-filesystem-type-exfat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2020\/04\/fix-unknown-filesystem-type-exfat\/","title":{"rendered":"Fix unknown filesystem type &#8216;exfat&#8217; in Ubuntu 18.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ubuntu-usb.jpg\" alt=\"ubuntu bootable usb\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6313\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today when I plugged my new USB flash drive into Ubuntu 18.04 laptop, I got an error pop up that said &#8216;<b>Unable to access &#8220;125GB Volume&#8221;. Error mounting \/dev\/sdb1 at \/media\/xxx\/xxx: unknown filesystem type &#8216;exfat&#8217;<\/b>&#8216;<\/p>\n<p>After a little search on the <a href=\"https:\/\/packages.ubuntu.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">packages.ubuntu.com<\/a>, I found Ubuntu main repositories offer <code>exfat-fuse<\/code> to read and write exFAT driver for FUSE, and <code>exfat-utils<\/code> to create, check, label and dump exFAT filesystem.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/mount-exfat-error.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"323\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9939\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/mount-exfat-error.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/mount-exfat-error-450x242.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Open terminal either by pressing <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> on keyboard or by searching for &#8216;terminal&#8217; from application menu.<\/p>\n<p>When terminal opens, run command to install the two packages:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt install exfat-fuse exfat-utils<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/enable-exfat.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"144\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9940\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/enable-exfat.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/enable-exfat-450x108.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once installed successfully, Ubuntu 18.04 should <b>mount exfat USB drive<\/b> automatically next time you plugged it in.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today when I plugged my new USB flash drive into Ubuntu 18.04 laptop, I got an error pop up that said &#8216;Unable to access &#8220;125GB Volume&#8221;. Error mounting \/dev\/sdb1 at \/media\/xxx\/xxx: unknown filesystem type &#8216;exfat&#8217;&#8216; After a little search on the packages.ubuntu.com, I found Ubuntu main repositories offer exfat-fuse to read and write exFAT driver [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1897],"class_list":["post-9938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-enable-exfat-ubuntu-18-04"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}