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How to install and use fuse-exfat and exfat-utils packages from RPM Fusion free on Fedora 28 Branched to format 64G Silicon Power micro SD card for music player.

Install rpmfusion-free-release-branched.noarch.rpm, which will install the following:

$ rpm -ql rpmfusion-free-release
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-free-fedora
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-free-fedora-27
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-free-fedora-27-primary
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-free-fedora-28
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-free-fedora-28-primary
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-free-fedora-29
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-free-fedora-29-primary
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-free-fedora-latest
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-free-fedora-rawhide
/etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-free-updates-testing.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-free-updates.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-free.repo
$

$ sudo dnf install fuse-exfat exfat-utils

Abridged contents of those packages:

$ rpm -ql fuse-exfat
/usr/sbin/mount.exfat
/usr/sbin/mount.exfat-fuse
/usr/share/doc/fuse-exfat
/usr/share/doc/fuse-exfat/ChangeLog
/usr/share/licenses/fuse-exfat
/usr/share/licenses/fuse-exfat/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/mount.exfat-fuse.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/mount.exfat.8.gz
$

$ rpm -ql exfat-utils
/usr/sbin/dumpexfat
/usr/sbin/exfatfsck
/usr/sbin/exfatlabel
/usr/sbin/fsck.exfat
/usr/sbin/mkexfatfs
/usr/sbin/mkfs.exfat
/usr/share/licenses/exfat-utils
/usr/share/licenses/exfat-utils/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/dumpexfat.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/exfatfsck.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/exfatlabel.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/fsck.exfat.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/mkexfatfs.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/mkfs.exfat.8.gz
$

All that's really necessary to mount an exFAT-formatted device is the first package, so once they're installed, simply inserting an exFAT-formatted SD card should mount it automatically, and you can start copying over all your music files.