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Re: External SSD with exFat don’t Mount

Ok, I'm a little out of touch with FAT based filesystems, but it looks like exfat might not be a native filesystem, in which case you may need some additional packages to be installed .. which might be installed by default on some distributions and not others. You could try (if you haven't already);
sudo apt-get install exfat-fuse exfat-utils
It might be for example that you have exfat-utils (which I guess is where exfatfsck is coming from) but maybe not the fuse filesystem component? (which...
Ok, I'm a little out of touch with FAT based filesystems, but it looks like exfat might not be a native filesystem, in which case you may need some additional packages to be installed .. which might be installed by default on some distributions and not others. You could try (if you haven't already);
sudo apt-get install exfat-fuse exfat-utils
It might be for example that you have exfat-utils (which I guess is where exfatfsck is coming from) but maybe not the fuse filesystem component? (which...

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