mount.posixovl command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

mount.posixovl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mount.posixovl: command not found

Solutions to mount.posixovl: command not found

How To Fix mount.posixovl: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu mount.posixovl is provided by fuse-posixovl package.

fuse-posixovl is:

With posixovl it is possible to mount FAT, VFAT, NTFS file system so that it behaves like POSIX. File permissions, symbolic links etc. are supported transparently. An extra file stores the information and the file system itself stays unmodified. It is a modern equivalent of the UMSDOS file system.

Typical use: Mount an USB FAT32 drive with posixovl and your files retain their permission settings.

This package extends mount and provides option ‘-t posixovl’.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install fuse-posixovl

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install fuse-posixovl.

sudo apt -y install fuse-posixovl

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install fuse-posixovl

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix mount.posixovl command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.