Is there any way to get exFAT working?  I realize its a
proprietary filesystem, but I have a 1TB external drive I use
for transferring CAD files.  I understand how I can pull files
from another machine via the network; I'm doing that now, but
pluggint the drive right into the machine would be alot
easier.

On Sat 03 Nov 2012 09:26:15 PM CDT, Justin wrote:

Hi
Rebuild the fedora src rpm?
http://code.google.com/p/exfat/downloads/detail?name=fuse-exfat-0.9.8...

If you want I can openSUSE-fi it?

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On Sat 03 Nov 2012 08:43:25 PM CDT, Malcolm wrote:

Somebody already has....
http://software.opensuse.org/package/fuse-exfat?search_term=fuse-exfat

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exfat-0.9.8-1.fc17.src.rpm&can=2&q=
exfat?search_term=fuse-exfat

Looks like I'll have to install the unstable version.  As
long as it doesn't corrupt the volume before I copy
everything off it should be OK.

On 11/04/2012 02:59 AM, Justin wrote:

mount it read only...(only writes can corrupt)

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Here's what I tried.
I tried running
sudo mount -t exfat-fuse /dev/sdb1 /media/exfat

and it said that mount point didn't exist.  then I just tried mounting it
at /media and all I got was a 17MB partition with $RECYCLE.BIN

What is the proper command to mound the drive under /media just like a
normal USB stick formatted to fat32?

On 11/08/2012 06:31 AM, Justin wrote:

first, you shouldn't mount anything to /media that is for the system's
use to automount stuff..

so, mount yours to /mnt and the point MUST exist prior to running the
mount command, so something like this should work

su -
mkdir /mnt/exfat
mount -ro -t [exfat-fuse] /dev/[sdb1] /mnt/exfat

ok, so three things:

1. i added ro (readonly) to address your concern that maybe something
will corrupt the system before you can copy the data off

2. i put exfat-fuse in brackets because i have no idea what that is, and
i look in my manual for mount and don't see it (nor exfat) listed as a
file system--SO if it won't mount as exfat-fuse i might wanna try
mounting it as one of these

-t exfat
-t vfat
-t auto
-t msdos

i wonder, did the info/spot Malcolm pointed you to say that you would
need a different mount command executable?

3. i put sdb1 in brackets because perhaps that drive has more than one
partition (you say you could only see a "17MB partition with
$RECYCLE.BIN" as if there should be more)..

maybe the more is at sdb2 ??

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On Thursday 08 November 2012 16:18, DenverD conveyed the following to
alt.os.linux.suse...

I'm afraid that's not correct.  As per the UNIX Filesystem Hierarchy
Standard version 2.3, /media is officially the parent directory for
mountpoints for removable storage devices such as CD, DVD, BluRay, USB
sticks, memory cards, et al.

/mnt is either a mountpoint or a parent directory to other mountpoints
intended for non-removable storage media which are not part of the
normal filesystem hierarchy, such as for instance a partition native to
another GNU/Linux distribution, or a Microsoft Windows partition, or
even a network share which isn't mounted anywhere in the local hierarchy
- as e.g. would be the case with an NFS-mounted /usr or /home - but
rather as in the case of an NFS-mounted volume for making backups.

exfat is a proprietary Microsoft extension to vfat to allow for a FAT-
like filesystem - as I understand it, even at the 64-bit level - on
larger partitions.  Given that it's proprietary, its specifications may
not (yet) be known to the Linux kernel developers, so I don't know
whether this filesystem is supported yet in GNU/Linux via FUSE.

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On 11/08/2012 04:51 PM, Aragorn wrote:

thanks...it seems i miss-remembered the two *backwards*...thanks for
correcting...so:

su -
mkdir /media/exfat
mount -ro -t [exfat-fuse] /dev/[sdb1] /media/exfat

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