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I have an SD card that apparently is formatted exfat. I tried copying some music onto it, and now my CM/marshmallow phone is saying that the card is corrupted. It mounts on my linux system, and running fsck gives me some file errors. But I can't fix them. I have no access to windows (well, maybe my wife's fairly locked down work computer). I'm leaving on a trip tomorrow and don't have time to pull off, reformat through android, and then reload my files. Any ideas?

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  • On Linux, copy out everything and run mkexfat or mkdosfs.
    – iBug
    May 9, 2017 at 7:43

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Note to self, since this happened again. I had to boot into a windows computer and run chkdsk. Doesn't appear to be a way to do this through linux. Maybe using testdisk, but I didn't mess with it much.

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  • So this fixed it yes?
    – William
    May 9, 2017 at 3:12
  • yes, but couldn't do it through linux.
    – mma8x
    Jan 13, 2019 at 17:06
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exFAT got its spec opened by Microsoft and added to a free-to-join patent pool in 2019/2020. It got incorporated into the kernel - first in 5.7, then an updated codebase from Samsung into 5.10. They also opened up their exfat helpers at https://github.com/exfatprogs/exfatprogs that include a filesystem check util.

See the different repair options of the util (interactively/no/yes/automatically). Autorepair is:

sudo fsck.exfat -a /dev/sda1

your distribution probably has it packaged under the same name "exfatprogs"

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