Hey Folks!
I needed to install CentOS into a really cool Alienware machine, but I didn’t have the .iso files neither the DVDs so I asked a friend for the .iso file, he gave me a copy using my USB drive but he formatted it to exFat.
The problem is that Linux is not so compatible with that specific file system, but you can use a really cool tool called “Fuse-ExFat” (which is a Free exFat file system implementation) to be able to mount the USB drive.
Let’s do what I did:
Download the rpm file from the official source:
I’m using Fedora 16 (Verne) so this is the file that I used:
http://code.google.com/p/exfat/downloads/detail?name=fuse-exfat-0.9.7-1.fc16.x86_64.rpm&can=2&q=
It’s a really tiny file, Go to the Downloads folder and let’s install it:
rpm -ivh fuse-exfat-0.9.7-1.fc16.x86_64.rpm
When is done, you need to be sure that you have the following package too:
yum install util-linux-ng
If it’s already there it’s ok, otherwise the above command will install it for you.
Alright, you are ready to start mounting devices using the exFat file system!!
Enjoy it!
Thanks for posting these instructions. I like the fact that on FC16 ExFat is able to auto-mount. Under my old FC7 (yes way behind in upgrades) I had to remembert the command line method to mount the drive.
You are Welcome James, wooW FC7! and let’s see how it works on the new beefy miracle (FC17)! Thank you for your comment!
Thanks for posting this! Very useful.
In Fedora 18 just use a #yum install fuse-exfat.i686
Thank you