FreeBSD: Mounting exFAT drive

Mounting an existing drive

fuse

Mounting an exFAT drive requires fuse and fusefs-exfat

doas pkg install fusefs-exfat

The fuse kernel module must be loaded if it isn’t already

doas kldload fusefs

Identify the drive

doas geom disk list

Create mount point and mount

doas mkdir -p /mnt/usb
doas mount.exfat /dev/da0 /mnt/usb

Formatting a drive

NOTE: All data on the drive will be lost.

Required package

mkexfatfs is included in exfat-utils

doas pkg install exfat-utils

Formatting

The drive must be unmounted to start.

doas mkexfatfs /dev/da0