Mounting exFAT USB in Linux
Jul 31, 2022 - ⧖ 1 minSteps
sudo fdisk -l
then look for the device and partition
get the Type column
mount
Example
dumbledore in /media NO PYTHON VENV SET
❯ sudo fdisk -l
...
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdk1 * 2048 60371951 60369904 28.8G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sdk2 60371952 60437487 65536 32M ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)
dumbledore in /media NO PYTHON VENV SET
❯ sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sdk1 /media/ventoy-usb -o uid=1000
NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount '/dev/sdk1': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sdk1' 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?
dumbledore in /media NO PYTHON VENV SET
✗ sudo mount -t exfat /dev/sdk1 /media/ventoy-usb -o uid=1000