Accessing an external hard drive on ubuntu linux

[Bret Busby]

On 13/2/21 1:51 pm, Volker Wysk wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 13.02.2021, 13:43 +0800 schrieb Bret Busby:
>> On 13/2/21 1:05 pm, Volker Wysk wrote:
>>> Am Freitag, den 12.02.2021, 19:06 -0800 schrieb M.R.P. zensky via ubuntu-
>>> users:
>>>> Hello I have an external drive connecting to ubuntu. I can see the icon for the drive on my desktop but can’t access the files on the drive?
>>>
>>> Do you have installed the exfat-utils package?
>>
>> My experience is that the xFAT driver has been present by default, in
>> Ubuntu Linux, since 12.04 .
> 
> I have a different experience. It wasn't installed by default in Ubuntu and
> Xubuntu...
> 
> Bye,
> Volker
> 
> 

Ah.

Maybe it is a feature of UbuntuMATE?

Although, I am not sure whether 12.04 was UbuntuMATE, or, was Ubuntu 
running gnome2.

I do remember, that, with a Samsunsung T5 SSD (and, each one after the 
first one - I have a few, now), it has been simply "Plug and Play", with 
no drivers needing to be installed, for the exFAT or xFAT filesystem 
(whichever of the two, is correct - I am not sure).

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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