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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.

Zanna
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starplateena
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  • How did you install exFAT? See https://mangolassi.it/topic/17293/ubuntu-18-04-live-exfat/2 – DrMoishe Pippik Jul 19 '18 at 03:36
  • I install using sudo apt install exfat-fuse exfat-utils. Then get exfat-fuse and exfat-utils 1.2.8. – starplateena Jul 20 '18 at 00:24
  • As in the reference, add PPA: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:relan/exfat – DrMoishe Pippik Jul 20 '18 at 00:34
  • Already tried and the result: Error reading https://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?op=get&options=mr&exact=on&search=0xtag:launchpad.net:2008:redacted: Not Found

    and error on update: Err:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/relan/exfat/ubuntu bionic Release
    404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.95.83 80]

     – starplateena Jul 20 '18 at 01:43

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Just press Ctrl+Alt+t and When your terminal appears, Type below command and boom:

sudo apt-get install exfat-fuse exfat-utils

Unplug your exFat external flash and then plug it again. This way settled my issue. Hope helps you.

AmerllicA
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exfat* was missing from my list as well, and I couldn't find a reliable repo source to add:

# apt-get install ex
example-content exim4 exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-heavy  exim4-daemon-light exim4-dev exim4-doc-html exuberant-ctags

I ended up downloading it from here.

Then ran dpkg -i exfat-fuse_1.2.8-1_amd64.deb to install.

Pablo Bianchi
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wolfenstein87
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For Ubuntu 18.04 LTS please use the following command:

sudo apt-get install exfat-fuse exfat-utils --fix-missing
Nmath
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Ram Vivek
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