ExFAT drive not mounting after not ejecting it properly

If your ExFAT drive is not mounting, here is the solution.

Open the Terminal:

sudo pkill -f fsck

fsck was holding the disk hostage. A quick `ps aux | grep fsck` revealed that indeed it was hijacking the disk/volume as soon as it was plugged in. `sudo pkill -f fsck` (or just `kill` with the PID if you prefer) immediately allowed the volume to be mounted.

Posted on May 3, 2020 1:57 AM

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HWTech

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May 6, 2020 6:28 PM in response to Timshadow

Thanks for the tip!

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