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Kapel
Asked: 2020-03-31 08:33:11 +0800 CST

How to format USB stick to exfat in Ubuntu 18.04 (now with kernel 5.3.0-42)? [duplicate]

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This is a dual boot laptop HP 8570p with Ubuntu 18.04 and Win 10. I've installed exfat-fuse and exfat-utils (both are of version 1.2.8-1 and they are now located in directory: /dev/sda5/usr/share/doc in form of changelog.Debian.gz), Ubuntu is in this /dev/sda5 device.

I tried to mount exfat using terminal two commands: 1.) at first 'mount exfat usr/share/doc', but the reply was: 'mount: only root can do that'; 2.) and secondly 'sudo mount -t exfat /dev/sda5/usr/share/doc /media/exfat, but the reply was: 'FUSE exfat 1.2.8 ERROR: failed to open '/dev/sda5/usr/share/doc': Not a directory.'

How can I proceed with mounting correctly ?

After this I tried to format USB stick to exFat with GParted, but my GParted (vers 0.30.3) does not support exFat. Can I do something to make my GParted to support also exFat ?

partitioning mount exfat

1 Answers

  1. I use something like this when manullay mounting USB Devices. Code:

    sudo mount -t vfat /dev/{usbdevicename} /media/external -o uid=1000,gid=1000,utf8,dmask=027,fmask=137

    The options following the "-o" give you ownership of the drive, and the masks allow for extra security for file system permissions. If you don't use those extra options you may not be able to read and write the drive with your regular username. Use the correct location/path instead of {usbdevicename}

    If you need the correct path you can use:

    sudo fdisk -l

    It will be something like sdb1, sdc1. The 3rd letter depends on the amount of storage devices in the system.

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