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Solved: Upgrade FAT to exFAT
Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2014 10:24 pm
by mister_v
Hi
I want to upgrade my external usb-disk from FAT to exFAT,
so it can handle files bigger than 4GB.
I'm using Ubuntu linux,
standard it has no support for exFAT.
Re: Upgrade FAT to exFAT
Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2014 10:48 pm
by Chris
First of all you need to install the drivers
To add the correct repository:
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sudo apt-add-repository ppa:relan/exfat
To update your package list:
To install fuse-exfat and exfat-utils packages:
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sudo apt-get install fuse-exfat exfat-utils
Then upgrade you external drive.
It should keep your data on the drive,
But just to be sure make a backup.
You can get a list of all your drives:
now covert the files system with the following command:
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sudo mkfs.exfat -n NEWLABEL /dev/sdX1
Optional you can do a file system check:
Now you can get write files bigger then 4GB on your disk.
Re: Upgrade FAT to exFAT
Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 5:37 pm
by mister_v
Thanks that worked