How to open exFAT SSD in Ubuntu 12.04?
exFAT is a proprietary file system developed by Microsoft, and implementing it requires accepting a very restrictive license from Microsoft. However, there is a FUSE implementation of exFAT for linux.
Since you are on a Ubuntu system, you can install the above-mentioned exFAT implementation from their PPA.
Add the PPA to your sources list by running
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:relan/exfat
in your favourite terminal emulator
Install the
fuse-exfat
and theexfat-utils
packages:sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install fuse-exfat exfat-utils
Now you should be able to use the SSD
To install exfat on Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander, you don’t need to add any extra PPA to your sources list. You only need to install the exfat-utils package.
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install exfat-utils
Ubuntu and Linux Mint will not automatically mount exFAT devices. To mount your exFAT device, plug in your device and run:
$ su -
# cat /proc/partitions
# cd /media
# mkdir usbdrive
# mount -t exfat /dev/sdd1 usbdrive
From How to enable exFAT on Ubuntu (on Nam Huy Linux), with a typo corrected.