Accessing an external hard drive on ubuntu linux

Sat Feb 13 13:00:10 UTC 2021

On Sat, 13 Feb 2021 at 06:53, Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de> wrote:
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> Am Samstag, den 13.02.2021, 13:43 +0800 schrieb Bret Busby:
> >
> > 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...

Volker is correct. I have never seen any version of Ubuntu that had it built-in.

Until 2019 it was encumbered code:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT#Other_implementations

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