How to open exFAT SSD in Ubuntu 12.04?

I have some files on my SSD and I want to put them on my Ubuntu 12.04(64bit) desktop , but Ubuntu cannot open the exFAT SSD when I connect it via USB. How can I make it work?

mugetsu

Posted 2012-06-13T15:44:24.460

Reputation: 461

3http://askubuntu.com/questions/14838/is-there-a-simple-way-to-add-exfat-support – vcsjones – 2012-06-13T16:16:19.457

Answers

exFAT is a proprietary file system developed by Microsoft, and implementing it requires accepting a very restrictive license from Microsoft. However, there is a FUSE implementation of exFAT for linux.

Since you are on a Ubuntu system, you can install the above-mentioned exFAT implementation from their PPA.

Add the PPA to your sources list by running
```
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:relan/exfat
```
in your favourite terminal emulator

Install the fuse-exfat and the exfat-utils packages:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install fuse-exfat exfat-utils

Now you should be able to use the SSD

user49740

Posted 2012-06-13T15:44:24.460

Reputation: 2 850

What I meant by "sudo -s" was, opening a sudo shell and execute all the commands within it, instead of multiple "sudo ..&& sudo..". I did not need to do this, I just did. – Jay – 2015-01-18T21:35:07.720

2sudo add-apt-repository ppa:relan/exfat does not work at all – Nicolas S.Xu – 2018-11-23T16:44:57.080

Still does not work, as of 18.04. Use the apt-get instructions from Amelia Torres, below. – levitopher – 2020-02-24T21:12:29.280

This worked quite well for me. Didn't even have to reboot. Though for some reason it wouldn't install directly, so I just did a sudo apt-get -d download fuse-exfat followed by sudo dpkg -i path/to/file.deb ftw. – MarkHu – 2013-01-10T21:02:47.513

Worked like a charm with my 12.04 using these commands but within a sudo shell (sudo -s) instead of "sudo .." for each commands. – Jay – 2013-01-20T20:58:26.147

1Worked for me in 12.04 as described. No need to "sudo -s". – mivk – 2013-06-28T10:35:37.867

1Same for me, no need for sudo -s – loostro – 2014-02-03T09:08:46.893

To install exfat on Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander, you don’t need to add any extra PPA to your sources list. You only need to install the exfat-utils package.

$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install exfat-utils

Ubuntu and Linux Mint will not automatically mount exFAT devices. To mount your exFAT device, plug in your device and run:

$ su -
# cat /proc/partitions
# cd /media
# mkdir usbdrive
# mount -t exfat /dev/sdd1 usbdrive

From How to enable exFAT on Ubuntu (on Nam Huy Linux), with a typo corrected.

Amelia Torres

Posted 2012-06-13T15:44:24.460

Reputation: 161

This method works for mounting SSD or SD Card: If you need to add the PPA to your sources then type following command in terminal,

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:relan/exfat

Next you need to install the exfat-utils through following command,

sudo apt-get install exfat-utils

This will install both

exfat-utils and exfat-fuse.

Then try to mount the SD Card or SSD. Hope this will work.

Note: while executing the second command for installing the exfat-utils, you may encounter the following issue:

E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable) E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?

This is because that only one program can hold the lock. Make sure that you are not running aptitude, synaptic or adept etc. To work around this issue, you just need to restart the machine and then opening the terminal and install the exfat-utils before doing or opening anything else in the machine. Hope this will work for solving both the mounting SSD/SDCard issue and the lock issue.

Khattak

Posted 2012-06-13T15:44:24.460

Reputation: 1