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I am running Fedora 35 and am trying to mount an exFAT drive, specifically an SD memory card for my digital camera.

The computer identifies the card reader as device /dev/sde1 and I am trying to use /lacie2 as the mount point.

This works correctly: sudo mount /dev/sde1 /lacie2 and I am able to access the drive. Typing mount shows the drive as:

/dev/sde1 on /lacie2 type exfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,iocharset=utf8,errors=remount-ro)

However, I tried writing an fstab entry to /etc/fstab as:

/dev/sde1          /lacie2         exfat   user,noauto,shortname=lower  0   0

so I could mount the drive directly with sudo mount /lacie2. This doesn't work but gives the error:

mount: /lacie2: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sde1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.

What is the reason here? As Fedora obviously seems to be able to mount exFAT drives, why must I explicitly specify the device?

user53739
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The mount fails because shortname is not a supported option for exfat (that's a vfat option). Remove it from your fstab and you should be able to mount the device.

wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sde1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.

In general, if you get this error (and the device you are trying is formatted to a supported filesystem), you should always check the kernel log for the "other error" part, in this case you should see something like:

kernel: exfat: Unknown parameter 'shortname'

Vojtech Trefny
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