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I'm trying to use GNOME Disks to format a USB stick to exFAT. If I create a new partition, I see this dialog:

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If I select "Other", I am presented with these choices:

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As you can see, the "exFAT" radio button is greyed out and disabled. How do I enable it? How do I format a partition to exFAT using GNOME Disks on Ubuntu?

user68186
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Flimm
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On Ubuntu 22.04 exfatprogs package needs to be installed to enable this option apt install exfatprogs

StanG
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The options greyed out do not have tools installed for those filesystems. In some cases, those filesystems can be mounted in linux, but not created.

For example until very recently, NTFS and exfat could only be created in windows. Only recently were tools for these available in linux.

Possibly the option would become available if you installed the appropriate exfat tools, assuming they are available for the version of Ubuntu you are using. In Ubuntu 20.04, apt install exfat-utils will install these tools.

user10489
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