On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Fernando Cassia <fcassia(a)gmail.com> wrote:
F18 here. I thought Linux included support for Microsoft's
exFat?
I get "'Unknown filesystem type: exfat' when plugging a Sandisk U3 8GB
Pen Drive formattted on WinXP with Exfat...
exFAT may be subject to patents [1] and thus cannot be in Fedora proper.
You can install the "exfat-fuse" package from RPMFusion-free in order
to mount exFAT disks in Fedora, and fsck/mkfs/etc. are in the
"exfat-utils" package also in RPMFusion.
-T.C.
[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT#Disadvantages