I have Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS on my laptop. Got a new USB Stick (Samsung) for storing extra files and I am unable to access it.
When I insert it, the folder shows up but when I click on it, it says:
Unable to access Samsung USB
- Error mounting ... Samsung USB: Unknown file system Type 'Exfat'
What do I need to do to be able to access it? Please give advice that an absolute IT beginner can handle :)
I've bought a new Seagate Expansion Portable Drive 2TB with exFat format. It works normally on Windows. On Ubuntu 18.04 I tried to mount the HD but failed.
I found advice to install exfat-fuse and exfat-utils (exfat 1.2.8). I've done that and still the HD is not mounting.
I tried to format the hd to NTFS but failed. I formatted it back with success to exFat. Still Ubuntu does not mount the HD. On disk it just mention 2TB block device. No partition.
Tried to format using mkfs.exfat but I get an Input/Output error. Checking on Windows for drive error found nothing wrong.
So we accidentally caused our server to go down without a clean shutdown and now df is reporting wrong stats for the external usb (exfat).
root@srv1:/backup/usbdisk# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb2 3.6T 2.8T 646G 82% /
...
/dev/sde1 7.3T 241M 7.3T 1% /backup/usbdisk
du says:
root@srv1:/backup/usbdisk# du -sh
2.6T .
exfatfsck /dev/sde1 says:
exfatfsck 1.1.0
WARN: volume was not unmounted cleanly.
Checking file system on /dev/sde1.
File system version 1.0
Sector size 512 bytes
Cluster size 128 KB
Volume size 7452 GB
Used space 241 MB
Available space 7452 GB
ERROR: cluster 0x3f of file 'assets' is not allocated.
ERROR: cluster 0x40 of file 'mysql' is not allocated.
ERROR: cluster 0x41 of file 'public_assets' is not allocated.
Totally 3 directories and 0 files.
File system checking finished. ERRORS FOUND: 3.
so how do we fix this?
I have searched around here and with Google, and none of the instructions I have found work with Oneric.
How do install exFAT and mount an exFAT partition in the latest release of Kubuntu?
When I insert a USB stick or camera flash card I get the following error:
unknown filesystem type 'exfat'
Is there a simple way to add exFAT support to Ubuntu without kernel patching?