How to Install exFAT drivers on CentOS 7

exFAT (Extended File Allocation Table) is a proprietary Microsoft file system optimized for flash memory devices (such as SD cards and USB flash drives). It is designed to replace the old 32-bit file system FAT32, FAT32 file system can not store files larger than 4 GB.

If you are using CentOS as the operating system, then when you try to install exFAT formatted USB drive, you may experience problems.

This tutorial describes how to enable exFAT support on CentOS 7.

ExFAT Drive installed on CentOS

To be able to install the exFAT file system on CentOS, you need to install the free FUSE exFAT modules and tools, it provides full functionality for Unix-like systems exFAT file system implementation.

ExFAT is not provided in the CentOS 7 core package repository. You can choose to build from source exFAT tool , or use the Nux Dextop repository yum install. We will choose the second option.

Nux repository depends on the EPEL repository. If EPEL repository is not enabled on your system, type the following command to enable it:

sudo yum install epel-release

Next, import the repository GPG key and software packages enable Nux repository by installing the rpm:

sudo rpm -v --import http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/RPM-GPG-KEY-nux.ro
sudo rpm -Uvh http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el7/x86_64/nux-dextop-release-0-5.el7.nux.noarch.rpm

When enabled repository exfat-fuse, use the following command to install the exfat-utilspackage:

sudo yum install exfat-utils fuse-exfat

You can now install the device using the exFAT format.

in conclusion

We've shown you how to enable support for the exFAT file system on a CentOS 7 computer. Some people exFAT called FAT64.

When the USB drive is inserted automatically installed, but if the automatic installation fails, must manually install the driver .