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mapsware
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Mount USB disc with exFAT

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To mount a disc with exFAT file system, I need to install the port/package fusefs-exfat

Why is not this port in the Software Station?

Do I just run this command?

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root@GhostBSD # pkg install fusefs-exfat
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Re: Mount USB disc with exFAT

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Does anybody know how to install FreeBSD package?
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slughorn
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Re: Mount USB disc with exFAT

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If it does not work out of the box try this tip: https://wiki.ghostbsd.org/index.php/How ... 2F_unmount
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Re: Mount USB disc with exFAT

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mapsware wrote: Fri Oct 30, 2020 3:51 pm Does anybody know how to install FreeBSD package?
GhostBSd has its own repository. I would suggest not to install from FreeBSD.
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Re: Mount USB disc with exFAT

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slughorn wrote: Sat Oct 31, 2020 9:09 am If it does not work out of the box try this tip: https://wiki.ghostbsd.org/index.php/How ... 2F_unmount
exFAT is not listed in the page

What is needed to made available the port fusefs-exfat to GosthBSD
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Re: Mount USB disc with exFAT

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mapsware wrote: Tue Nov 03, 2020 1:39 pm
slughorn wrote: Sat Oct 31, 2020 9:09 am If it does not work out of the box try this tip: https://wiki.ghostbsd.org/index.php/How ... 2F_unmount
exFAT is not listed in the page

What is needed to made available the port fusefs-exfat to GosthBSD
Maybe you can ask Eric on telegram to get this port/package to GhostBSD.
wb7odyfred
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Re: Mount USB disc with exFAT

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pkg info fusefs-exfat
fusefs-exfat-1.3.0_1
Name : fusefs-exfat
Version : 1.3.0_1
Installed on : Mon Jul 4 22:37:46 2022 PDT
Origin : sysutils/fusefs-exfat
Architecture : FreeBSD:13:amd64
Prefix : /usr/local
Categories : sysutils
Licenses : GPLv2+
Maintainer : samm@FreeBSD.org
WWW : https://github.com/relan/exfat
Comment : Full-featured exFAT FS implementation as a FUSE module
Shared Libs required:
libublio.so.1
libfuse.so.2
Annotations :
FreeBSD_version: 1301502
cpe : cpe:2.3:a:exfat_project:exfat:1.3.0:::::freebsd13:x64:1
repo_type : binary
repository : GhostBSD
Flat size : 70.5KiB
Description :
exfat-fuse is a free exFAT file system implementation with write support.
exFAT is a simple file system created by Microsoft. It is intended to
replace FAT32 removing some of its limitations. exFAT is a standard FS for
SDXC memory cards.

WWW: https://github.com/relan/exfat
root@fredTC93-pc:/media #

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pkg search fusefs-exfat
fusefs-exfat-1.3.0_1 Full-featured exFAT FS implementation as a FUSE module
root@fredTC93-pc:/media #

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pkg list fusefs-exfat
/usr/local/man/man8/mount.exfat-fuse.8.gz
/usr/local/sbin/mount.exfat
/usr/local/sbin/mount.exfat-fuse
/usr/local/share/licenses/fusefs-exfat-1.3.0_1/GPLv2+
/usr/local/share/licenses/fusefs-exfat-1.3.0_1/LICENSE
/usr/local/share/licenses/fusefs-exfat-1.3.0_1/catalog.mk

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man mount.exfat-fuse
root@fredTC93-pc:/media #

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mount.exfat-fuse
FUSE exfat 1.3.0
Usage: mount.exfat-fuse [-d] [-o options] [-V] <device> <dir>
root@fredTC93-pc:/media #

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 mount.exfat-fuse /dev/da1p2  /mnt/exfat6
FUSE exfat 1.3.0
WARN: volume was not unmounted cleanly.
root@fredTC93-pc:/media #
ls -lh /mnt/exfat6
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Re: Mount USB Flash disc with exFAT

Post by wb7odyfred »

https://wiki.ghostbsd.org/index.php/How ... 2F_unmount FAT32 & NTFS

https://forums.ghostbsd.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=782 Mount NVMe drives
you need to install ext4fuse

The ext4 disk should be /dev/ada1 depending on how many disks you have

Can you give the output of :

geom disk list

and

gpart show ada0

gpart show ada1

My apologies.
You have your ext4 data on the ada0 drive. ;) Forgot about NVMe drives.

To mount the drive try:

ext4fuse ada0 /mnt

or

ext4fuse /dev/ada0 /mnt

If that doesn't work try:

ext4fuse /dev/ada0s1 /mnt

if you want to mount the device into your home folder, create a folder with a name you like for example ext4data

then mount the disk with:

ext4fuse /dev/ada0s1 /home/yourusername/ext4data

if you get an error it may be the /dev/ada0s1 is incorrect somewhere. Like I said I did this a couple of years ago and it works great!

How's the NVMe disk running. Lucky you! ;)
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