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From: Bill Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mount and exfat
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 10:16:36
Message-Id: 1351592070.30533.61.camel@troll
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: mount and exfat by Francesco Talamona
1 On Tue, 2012-10-30 at 06:40 +0100, Francesco Talamona wrote:
2 > On Tuesday 30 October 2012, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
3 > > Any idea how I can get the mount command to recognise exfat? It
4 > > works as root but not via fstab for users.
5 > >
6 > > bunyip ~ # mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/tmp
7 > > mount: unknown filesystem type 'exfat'
8 > > bunyip ~ # mount.exfat /dev/sdc1 /mnt/tmp
9 > > FUSE exfat 0.9.8
10 > > bunyip ~ #
11 > >
12 > >
13 > > BillK
14 >
15 > http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=85873
16 >
17 > Never used exfat myself, but I think you should include "exfat-fuse" in
18 > fstab
19 >
20 > HTH
21 > Francesco
22 >
23
24 Ah, I was using exfat!
25
26 Seems like all the newer high capacity usb thumb drives are exfat so it
27 will become more common I am sure.
28
29 BillK