- Check disk list
sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 931.49 GiB, 1000170586112 bytes, 1953458176 sectors
Disk model: My Passport 259B
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: F874BF9C-EEF6-44D2-BED1-A65CDE2BD917
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sda1 40 409639 409600 200M EFI System
/dev/sda2 411648 1953456127 1953044480 931.3G Microsoft basic data <-- What we will mount
- Make mount directory and mount it
mkdir drive_mypassport
mount /dev/sda2 drive_mypassport/
unknown filesystem type 'exfat'. <-- Oh, error detected.
- Install exfat utils
sudo apt-get install exfat-fuse exfat-utils
- Umount and retry
sudo umount drive_mypassport
sudo mount /dev/sda2 drive_mypassport
cd drive_mypassport/
/drive_mypassport$ ls -al
total 5098628
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 131072 Nov 17 2016 '$RECYCLE.BIN'
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 131072 Jan 1 1970 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 stories2 stories2 4096 Feb 27 14:18 ..
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 131072 Nov 16 2016 .sadfasfsadfas
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