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Can't mount FAT32 drive under Ubuntu Linux

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I have a 320GB USB drive with a single large FAT32 partition. The volume mounts perfectly fine on my Mac OS X 10.5.8 machine and Disk Utility on the mac reports no issues with the volume. I can read/write all data on the drive. However when I connect the drive to my Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic system, the pā€¦

Error Output

[ 2752.334822] scsi3 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[ 2752.335040] usb-storage: device found at 3
[ 2752.335044] usb-storage: waiting ā€¦

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Fix for: Can't mount FAT32 drive under Ubuntu Linux

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For me, returning " " was because it was not vfat, but rather newer exfat. So I had to install tools appropriate tools ( ) to be able to mount and fsck it (by using instead, or even better just and have fsck autodetect the filesystem)

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