Porteus

Hello everyone,

I am running a new install of Porteus 4.0 with the xfce desktop and trying to mount a USB drive formatted with the ExFat filesystem. I have installed exfat-utils and fuse-exfat packages version 1.2.8. but I am still getting ¨exFAT file system is not found¨ when I try to mount the drive. I am using the syntax given in the following post:

ExFAT Error *SOLVED*
The command was run from a root console. the exact output is:

FUSE exfat 1.2.8
ERROR: exFAT file system is not found.

I am at a loss as to where to go from here. Any input or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks in advance,
Joecephus

What happens if you just use: mount /dev/sdc1

Thanks for the reply. I ran the mount command and got the following output:

NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount '/dev/sdc1': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sdc1' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?

I also tried ¨mount /dev/sdc /mnt/exfat¨ and received the same.

Any other ideas? I the only one I have is to not use exfat.

Joecephus

Here is more info. If I change the link to the mount command to point at mount.exfat, I can mount the drive. So I guess the question now becomes how to make the original mount command recognize exfat is a valid option and to use mount.exfat.

Thanks in advance,

Joe

I'm happy to hear that you can mount the drive but I'm confused. "how to make the original mount command" What mount command? The one in your file manager?

-edit-

While I never recommend NTFS for flash drives it could solve this problem.

The mount command out of the box is symbolically linked from /sbin to /usr/sbin if my memory serves (not on Porteus at the moment to verify). It would be great if the mount command in /usr/sbin could mount exfat drives so I dont have to break the original link. Anyone know where the list of available filesystem formats are kept. Maybe it can be added there?

From /sbin to /bin from what I see. And from reviewing the web once the Fuse & Utils are installed the exFAT drive will be mounted automatically when connected. Which apparently isn't working for you. hmmm The manual mount command shown on "the web" is different that the one shown in the link you referred to, maybe that will help. Else you will need to wait for someone with more knowledge than I have. Sorry.

"So I guess the question now becomes how to make the original mount command recognize exfat is a valid option and to use mount.exfat."
Try adding it to /etc/filesystems.