I am using the latest Armbian image on OPI+.

 

I had a requirement to read a 64Gb USB flash formatted under Windows with the extFat filesystem.

Much to my surprise it didn't mount. I thought it was a hardware problem 1st. But then it appeared, that mount doesn't support the the extFat filesystem by default.

 

It is necessary to add the extra packages, but I didn't succeed:

 

root@orangepiplus:/# apt-get install exfat-fuse exfat-utils

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

The following NEW packages will be installed:

exfat-fuse exfat-utils

0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded.

Need to get 66.9 kB of archives.

After this operation, 198 kB of additional disk space will be used.

Err http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main exfat-fuse armhf 1.1.0-2+deb8u1

Could not resolve 'httpredir.debian.org'

Err http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main exfat-utils armhf 1.1.0-2+deb8u1

Could not resolve 'httpredir.debian.org'

E: Failed to fetch http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/fuse-exfat/exfat-fuse_1.1.0-2+deb8u1_armhf.deb Could not resolve 'httpredir.debian.org'

 

E: Failed to fetch http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/exfat-utils/exfat-utils_1.1.0-2+deb8u1_armhf.deb Could not resolve 'httpredir.debian.org'

 

E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

root@orangepiplus:/#

 

 

I switched to the OpenElec, which mounted the extFat nicely alone with the Fat32:

 

/dev/sdb1 29.5G 29.5G 0 100% /var/media/TF29GB

/dev/sdc1 58.0G 47.8G 10.3G 82% /var/media/USB58GB

 

 

OpenELEC:~ # cat /etc/mtab

 

/dev/sdb1 /var/media/TF29GB vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,fmask=0133,dmask=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=continue 0 0

/dev/sdc1 /var/media/USB58GB fuseblk rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0

 

What is the problem installing exfat-fuse exfat-utils ?

 

Could not resolve 'httpredir.debian.org'

You have plenty of those errors in your log ... This is because your orangepi doesn't have DNS to resolve IPAddr of this server. To confirm, simply try "ping httpredir.debian.org" ...

The resolve issue was the 1st I thought about.

root@orangepiplus:/usr/src# ping httpredir.debian.org
PING httpredir.debian.org (176.9.184.93) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from raphael.ganneff.de (176.9.184.93): icmp_seq=1 ttl=46 time=83.6 ms
64 bytes from raphael.ganneff.de (176.9.184.93): icmp_seq=2 ttl=46 time=57.5 ms

 

 

Nonetheless, it appears to be the reason. I've retried the

 

root@orangepiplus:/# apt-get install exfat-fuse exfat-utils

 

and it succeeded this time.

Now I am able to mount:

root@orangepiplus:/usr/src# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1/
FUSE exfat 1.1.0

 

/dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1 fuseblk rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0

 

/dev/sdb1        59G   33G   26G  57% /mnt/sdb1

 

Thanks for the prompt again.