Mount exfat file system on Ubuntu

In this part we would mount exfat file system on ubuntu. In general ubuntu can not mount exfat file system the following packages and repositories are required to mount exfat file system on your machine

1. $sudo add-apt-repository ppa:relan/exfat - For adding particular repository

2. $sudo apt-get update

3. $sudo apt-get install fuse-expat expat-utils
(In case you don't have fuse already installed on your system you have to install fuse too. $sudo apt-get install fuse)

4. then plug in your hard drive and make a directory in the media so that you can mount exfat file system on that directory.

$sudo mkdir /media/exfat

5. now mount exfat file system on it :

$sudo mount /dev/sdb(number) /media/exfat - This command will mount your particular exfat file system drive onto the folder specified. In this case we have specified exfat named folder.

Finally navigate in the folder to excess the contents of hard drive and for 

6. $sudo unmount /media/exfat - Unmounting the drive


Note: In effect sometimes it is not required to make new directory to mount the drive because after installing the required packages you can simply mount it by just clicking on to the required drive to be mounted. If you are not able to see this drive then it is advisable to mount it by making a new directory.

Happy mounting... :)