by I recently acquired a new external multi-TB SSD and these types of volumes are formatted in exFAT. exFAT is a file system introduced by Microsoft in 2006 and optimized for flash memory such as USB flash drives and SD cards.
Unfortunately Synology doesn’t support it by default. Here are the steps to follow to overcome this:
- Enable SSH and connect as root on your NAS
- Check your system architecture
- Copy the right exfat-fuse download path that matches your architecture
Adapt the following commands to your needs (armhf worked with my DS216play):
wget -P /tmp/ http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/fuse-exfat/exfat-fuse_1.1.0-2+deb8u1_armhf.deb
dpkg -x /tmp/exfat-fuse_1.1.0-2+deb8u1_armhf.deb /tmp/exfat-fuse/
cp /tmp/exfat-fuse/sbin/mount.exfat-fuse /bin/
List all your disks to find your external disk (/dev/sdq1 for me):
fdisk -l
Now you can mount your volume:
mkdir /volume1/usb-exfat
mount.exfat-fuse /dev/sdq1 /volume1/usb-exfat -o nonempty
Play with your disk, then unmount it with:
eject -F /dev/sdq
I’m getting this message
“cp: cannot create regular file ‘/bin/mount.exfat-fuse’: Permission denied”
To see the data in DSM using File Station or Windows File Service (SMB)
synospace –map-file -d
synocheckshare
I successfully mounted the disk, in control panel -> external devices it shows the filesystem type as fuseblk, but how do I access the drive now? It doesn’t show in File station? Thanks !
Dont’ get it how to find correct download path for DS213j
Thanks, this worked perfectly!
This worked for me on my 920+ I downloaded the amd64 redistribution for x86_64:
http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/fuse-exfat/exfat-fuse_1.2.5-2_amd64.deb
Thanks for saving me $3.99… What a joke that Synology charge for this.
My only issue was that ejecting at the end failed…
umount: /volume1/usb1: target is busy
(In some cases useful info about processes that
use the device is found by lsof(8) or fuser(1).)
eject: unmount of `/volume1/usb1′ failed
But I’d finished copying the files, so I’m not sure why it said that.
Just want to say that as of November 2020, this worked on my DS414+ running Synology 6.2 software. Just had to download the Armhf version though.
hi, works like a charm on my 412+, my sd card also automounts perfectly.
thanks for the tip !
I tried your instructions on a DS218+ and its mounting the drive and I can see the files in it but cannot write anything to the drive.
From the UI I wasn’t able to write to it. However using the following command it works well: cp -avr /volume1/source_folder/ /volume1/usb-exfat/destination_folder/
Hi, How can I do this instrucction on NAS ..??
Thanks, it worked for DS116