Friday, March 9, 2018

Ubuntu 14.04 can't mount exFAT external hard disk

I just installed Ubuntu 14.04 lately and tried to read files from an external drive that was formatted to exFAT from NTFS. I followed a lot of instructions online and got both exFAT-fuse and exFAT-untils installed but still wasn't able to see the hard drive in my system or manually mount it. Any feedback would be appreciated.



$ lsusb

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub

Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0bda:57b5 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 046d:c05a Logitech, Inc. M90/M100 Optical Mouse
Bus 001 Device 008: ID 1058:1021 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Elements 2TB
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub


The way I tried to mount it:



sudo mkdir /media/elements
sudo mount -t exfat /dev/sdb/media/elements

sudo mount -t exfat /dev/sdb1/media/elements


and it had the same output:



Usage: mount -V                 : print version
mount -h : print this help
mount : list mounted filesystems
mount -l : idem, including volume labels
So far the informational part. Next the mounting.

The command is `mount [-t fstype] something somewhere'.
Details found in /etc/fstab may be omitted.
mount -a [-t|-O] ... : mount all stuff from /etc/fstab
mount device : mount device at the known place
mount directory : mount known device here
mount -t type dev dir : ordinary mount command
Note that one does not really mount a device, one mounts
a filesystem (of the given type) found on the device.
One can also mount an already visible directory tree elsewhere:
mount --bind olddir newdir

or move a subtree:
mount --move olddir newdir
One can change the type of mount containing the directory dir:
mount --make-shared dir
mount --make-slave dir
mount --make-private dir
mount --make-unbindable dir
One can change the type of all the mounts in a mount subtree
containig the directory dir:
mount --make-rshared dir

mount --make-rslave dir
mount --make-rprivate dir
mount --make-runbindable dir
A device can be given by name, say /dev/hda1 or /dev/cdrom,
or by label, using -L label or by uuid, using -U uuid .
Other options: [-nfFrsvw] [-o options] [-p passwdfd].






$ dmesg:


The result was so long that I couldn't paste it on here. So I put it up on pastebin along with a link to this question.



$ fdisk -l:


WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.



Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x3f7852a4

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 976773167 488386583+ ee GPT

Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary.

Disk /dev/sdb: 1500.3 GB, 1500299395072 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 182401 cylinders, total 2930272256 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0f68f3b5

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

/dev/sdb1 * 2 2930272255 1465136127 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

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