'Unknown filesystem type: exfat'

[Fernando Cassia]

F18 here. I thought Linux included support for Microsoft's exFat?

I get "'Unknown filesystem type: exfat' when plugging a Sandisk U3 8GB
Pen Drive formattted on WinXP with Exfat...

FC

[T.C. Hollingsworth]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Fernando Cassia  wrote:
> F18 here. I thought Linux included support for Microsoft's exFat?
>
> I get "'Unknown filesystem type: exfat' when plugging a Sandisk U3 8GB
> Pen Drive formattted on WinXP with Exfat...

exFAT may be subject to patents [1] and thus cannot be in Fedora proper.

You can install the "exfat-fuse" package from RPMFusion-free in order
to mount exFAT disks in Fedora, and fsck/mkfs/etc. are in the
"exfat-utils" package also in RPMFusion.

-T.C.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT#Disadvantages

[Fernando Cassia]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 9:40 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth
 wrote:
> You can install the "exfat-fuse" package from RPMFusion-free in order
> to mount exFAT disks in Fedora, and fsck/mkfs/etc. are in the
> "exfat-utils" package also in RPMFusion.

Thanks TC!

yum install ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/updates/18/i386/fuse-exfat-1.0.1-1.fc18.i686.rpm

seems to have done the trick.

FC