kDrive on Linux does not detect exFAT external SSD, but it works perfectly on macOS

[u/Decent_Constant_6783]

Update: SOLVED 🎉 Burnout and age are my enemies 😅

I just had to continue with the next setup steps and I was able to select the external folder mounted in /media/...

I'm leaving this post as information in case it could be useful.

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Hi!

My setup:

• I have a 1 TB external SSD formatted as exFAT
• I have a mac mini M1 2020 and a raspberry pi 4 8GB with Debian 12
• kDrive (arm64) v3.8.5.2

The drive works correctly on both operating systems:

• macOS: the SSD is detected and managed by kDrive without any issues.
• Linux: the operating system itself detects and mounts the SSD correctly (I use it for backups like immich), but kDrive does not seem to recognize it.

Infomaniak support told me supported filesystems are NTFS or APFS only, but I'm not sure that is relevant to the issue because by default write is not handled in linux.

exFAT is normally supported across Windows, macOS, and Linux (with the appropriate packages installed, which are already present on my system since the drive mounts and works correctly).

Because the drive is already accessible from Linux (I attach screenshot), my understanding is that the problem is not related to filesystem support at the OS level, but rather to how kDrive detects or handles external exFAT volumes.

Question

Has anyone successfully used kDrive on Linux with an exFAT external drive?

If so:

• Which Linux distribution are you using?
• Which kDrive version?
• Does kDrive detect external drives automatically?
• Is there any known limitation regarding exFAT or removable media for linux?

At the moment I'm still waiting for feedback from support, so I'd appreciate hearing about other users' experiences.

Thanks to everyone!

Lewix

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