[PLUG] exFAT v. FAT32

[John Jason Jordan]

On Thu, 17 Jun 2021 23:00:13 -0700
John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> dijo:

>On Tue, 15 Jun 2021 15:43:12 -0700
>Vince Winter <vince.winter at freegeek.org> dijo:
>
>>sudo mkfs.exfat -n LABEL /dev/sdXn
>
>	sudo mkfs.exfat -n exfat_drive /dev/sdc1
>	sudo: mkfs.exfat: command not found
>
>Looking a the man page for mkfs the exfat filesystem is not listed as
>an option. Maybe I need a newer version of mkfs.

Problem solved. It turns out that my kernel may support exFAT, but you
also need exfat-fuse and exfat-utils, which Ubuntu, in their wisdom,
did not bother to install. Having installed them the format command
above worked great and my 1TB flash drive is mounted.

Tomorrow I shall see if the new exFAT utilities make a difference with
my 128GB flash drive.