Re: Having trouble mounting an external disk

2019-04-30 Thread David Lopez
thanks all installed the missing software (exfat-fuse exfat-utils). works like a charm. david On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 5:45 PM Stephen Partington wrote: > Also note, While Linux does have an ExFat option. the Linux ExFat is very > different than the Windows ExFat. > > > On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at

Re: Having trouble mounting an external disk

2019-04-28 Thread Stephen Partington
Also note, While Linux does have an ExFat option. the Linux ExFat is very different than the Windows ExFat. On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 5:17 PM Jason Spatafore wrote: > exFAT is a new FS type to handle larger disks. (Windows format) > > Answer likely here for you. > > You'll likely just need to do

Re: Having trouble mounting an external disk

2019-04-28 Thread Jason Spatafore
Don't you hate when you forget to provide the link? https://itsfoss.com/mount-exfat/ On 4/28/19 5:07 PM, David Lopez wrote: hi guys & gals bought an external usb3 disk, Western Digital 3 Tera-bytes. my Ubuntu try's to automatically mount on /media/david (david is my user name) which is the s

Re: Having trouble mounting an external disk

2019-04-28 Thread Jason Spatafore
exFAT is a new FS type to handle larger disks. (Windows format) Answer likely here for you. You'll likely just need to do the following commands sudo apt install exfat-fuse exfat-utils On 4/28/19 5:07 PM, David Lopez wrote: hi guys & gals bought an external usb3 disk, Western Digital 3 Tera

Having trouble mounting an external disk

2019-04-28 Thread David Lopez
hi guys & gals bought an external usb3 disk, Western Digital 3 Tera-bytes. my Ubuntu try's to automatically mount on /media/david (david is my user name) which is the standard mount point for all of the other external disks i have tried successfully (Toshiba, Seagate). The error code is "unknown