Mounting exFAT in Ubuntu

Recently, I was trying to access NTFS based partitions in Mac OSX Snow Leopard, which always shows them as "read only" partitions. I got to understand that OSX by default only supports NTFS read only. I have had an option of using FAT with OSX and that too have its own limitation, one I know is the max file size less than 4gb.

So, I decided to partition my drive as exFAT, which is supported in both Windows and Mac. But when I tried accessing the same from my Ubuntu machine, it failed. So here is what I did to fix the problem in Ubuntu.

sudo su -
add-apt-repository ppa:relan/exfat
apt-get update
apt-get install fuse-exfat

With the above setting you will be able to manually mount the drives. In order to make this process automated this is what  I followed.

apt-get install build-essential
apt-get install ncurses-dev
apt-get install util-linux

With this it worked in all the operating systems I work on.