Change the partition type to HPFS/NTFS/exFAT: press t, enter, 7, enter.
Create a new partition: press n, enter and accept default options.Create a new (dos) partition table: press o and enter.$ sudo fdisk /dev/sdb # Pay attention! No final digit is used.Ĭhanges will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.īe careful before using the write command. Create a new partition table and partition of type HPFS/NTFS/exFAT.├─sdb1 8:17 1 256M 0 part /media/myuser/mydevice In this example, /dev/sdb is the device, with two partitions, the first of which is mounted. In a terminal, run the below command which will show connected devices and partition mount points. Use a graphical tool like gparted or the command line (which is more fun). Note: On systems with older kernels, use exfat-utils instead of exfatprogs.įrom here, you have two options. $ sudo pacman -S exfatprogs # Arch Linux/Manjaro $ sudo dnf install exfatprogs # Red Hat/Fedora/CentOS $ sudo apt install exfatprogs # Debian/Ubuntu If not installed, you will have to install exFAT support. Since kernel version 5.4, exFAT is a native filesystem for Linux and does not rely on FUSE anymore. exFAT is, roughly speaking, a revision of FAT32 without the 4GB max file size limitation. Currently, the best filesystem to share content between Windows and Linux is exFAT, specially on USB pendrives and SD cards.
