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Support exFAT volumes with NAS Synology for free

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:

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
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Nero
Nero
2 years ago

I’m getting this message
“cp: cannot create regular file ‘/bin/mount.exfat-fuse’: Permission denied”

barbet
barbet
2 years ago

To see the data in DSM using File Station or Windows File Service (SMB)
synospace –map-file -d
synocheckshare

Thib
Thib
2 years ago

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 !

Last edited 2 years ago by Thib
maxpd
maxpd
2 years ago

Dont’ get it how to find correct download path for DS213j

Joe
Joe
3 years ago

Thanks, this worked perfectly!

Oscar
Oscar
3 years ago

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.

Last edited 3 years ago by Oscar
bryan
bryan
3 years ago

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.

benji
benji
3 years ago

hi, works like a charm on my 412+, my sd card also automounts perfectly.
thanks for the tip !

JJJJ
JJJJ
3 years ago

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.

Carlos
Carlos
3 years ago

Hi, How can I do this instrucction on NAS ..??

Sam
Sam
3 years ago

Thanks, it worked for DS116