Mount MicroSD

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I am trying to mount a micro SD adaptor with a 64GB micro SD - this is the error message:

 An error occurred while accessing '62.5 GiB Removable Media', the system responded: The requested operation has failed: Error mounting /dev/sda1 at /run/media/root/432E-8C16: Command-line `mount -t "exfat" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=0,gid=0,iocharset=utf8,namecase=0,errors=remount-ro,umask=0077" "/dev/sda1" "/run/media/root/432E-8C16"' exited with non-zero exit status 32: mount: unknown filesystem type 'exfat'

If I run

 # sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt

I get: mount:

unknown filesystem type 'exfat'

as it was likely formatted in windows

Any help much appreciated/

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Hi
Grab the fuse-exfat and exfat-utils packages from the filesystems repository;
https://software.opensuse.org/package/fuse-exfat
https://software.opensuse.org/package/exfat-utils

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Thanks - I used what I had already installed (dosfstools) and just ran

 # mkdosfs -F 32 -I /dev/sda1

. Worked fine. Thanks for your prompt reply…

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Hi
As long as you don’t try to put any big files on it, you will be fine :wink:

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Why no big files? And if I do what is better?

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FAT is 16 bit and limited to 4 gig files maxsize . exfat/FAT32 is extended and does not have the 32 bit limitation. NTFS is ok also for large files. If used only on Linux then use ext2/4

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So I have my mounted car. I can access it using Dolphin, copy files to it etc, but if I try and, say, ‘browse’ to the folder where it is in the system /run/media/root/A322-EAE8/ cos I want to create a ‘Tresor’ there I don’t see anything. Probably file permissions but Dolphin won’t let me change them even tho I’m logged in as root.

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You should not be logged in as root

Permissions on MS file system are synthetic and not persistent ie you can not change them.

I really did not follow what you are doing please explain step by step