A fresh install wouldn’t be fresh without some type of issue. I have an external hard drive that stores all of my information, this includes video, pictures, music, and important documents. I have it formatted as exFat because of having to use it across multiple platforms. Out of the box Linux mint does not permit me to access it instead throwing me this nasty message:
Unable to Mount Media
Error mounting /dev/sdb1 at /media/john/Media: Command-line `mount -t "exfat" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf8,namecase=0,errors=remount-ro,umask=0077" "/dev/sdb1" "/media/john/Media"' exited with non-zero exit status 32: mount: unknown filesystem type 'exfat'
I have run into this problem before and as luck would have it, after staring at the error message for a bit I remembered how to fix this bad boy. I busted out the Terminal.
john@john-mint ~ $ sudo apt-get install exfat-fuse exfat-utils
Voila and like magic my hard drive loaded, I did not even have to shut it off and back on, or attempt to manually mount it.
It just worked.
Isn’t that what we all want from our computers? No hassle, no B.S. Zip, zilch, nada. We just want it to work.
John Learns Linux...again 