Cant mount exfat usb hdd with SpaceFM

[Member aledosim]

Hello there,
I’m trying to mount a exfat formatted usb hdd trough SpaceFM. It returns the follow

FUSE exfat 1.3.0
WARN: volume was not unmounted cleanly.
fuse: mountpoint is not empty
fuse: if you are sure this is safe, use the 'nonempty' mount option

So, I went to Devices > Settings > Mount options and wrote nonempty into the text box. But it still thrown the same error. Don’t know on which path it try to mount the device anyway.
Founded this post, with a similar problem, but there’s no solution.
On this post, have the same problem, but as secondary discussion and without the solution. I can mount the device with command line too.

Is there some missconfiguration?

[Member Xecure]

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So you can already mount using terminal but you have trouble with Spacefm. Is that correct?
If you want to mount it without any problems with Spacefm you could add the mount instructions to fstab (manually or automatically) and have it manage that exfat USB HDD instead of udevil. When using spacefm it should properly mount.
If you don’t want to add it to exFat, wait for someone more knowledgeable with udevil to help.

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[Forum Admin Dave]

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I seem to recall this being a bug a while back and it having to do with either adding or removing the exfat-dkms package… or was it fuse-exfat

• This reply was modified 2 years, 8 months ago by Dave.

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[Moderator BobC]

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I was trying to use Ventoy, and its default format is ExFAT, and was getting the same error as above, and was not able to mount the drive when I would try add distro’s after Ventoy had created the setup. Automount had to be turned off. I have exfat-utils and exfat-fuse installed and I also use SpaceFM.

I didn’t try mounting it manually and don’t know the correct command. I would rather be able to mount it by clicking it in Spacefm if I could, but don’t know how to configure it to work.

[Member Xecure]

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I searched the forum but didn’t find what Dave was refering to.

I have only got it to work well for me after I added it to fstab. Once it is there (noauto), when clicking on the device in SpaceFM it mounted correctly for me (as it used the fstab instructions intead of udevil).

First I had to manually mount it on my desired folder path. i created the folder (sudo mkdir), mounted the device (sudo mount -t exfat), had to do it twice (mount, unmount, mount) to get it to not spitout an error. once it is mounted where I want it, I update the fstab (make a backup of fstab first). After that I have no problem mounting it from spacefm.

Most of the important instructiosn are in my first link above. There are better ways, I am sure, but this is the way I know and that has worked for me.

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[Member ModdIt]

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Maybe this bug is back, yesterday I got
volume was not unmounted cleanly mountpoint is not empty
if you are sure this is safe, use the ‘nonempty’ mount option

In spaceFM with an SD card from Action cam. Formatting is FAT32.

I found no fix for the error, mount and unmount with the assigned drive said no device found.
Maybe FUSE ?. But error did not mention it in my case. i have no knowledge on fuse, and until
I have delivered fruit for juice not much time.

If this hits kids with phone or cam I get a shitstorm, or pelted with rotten pears. 🙁 juch.
any ideas on how to fix very welcome.

Reformatting allowed me to use the card once more, I think due new ID.

[Member Xecure]

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So, the SD card was exfat or fat32?
none of the recommendations helped?

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