Alpine-linux mounting error

lattimro · 01-25-2022, 09:27 PM

not sure if this belongs here, Admin can erase this if you like or move it to the appropriate Distribution.
Alpine current:

Code:

alpine_paco:/home/brad# lsblk
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
fd0      2:0    1     4K  0 disk
sda      8:0    0  28.6G  0 disk
├─sda1   8:1    0   9.1G  0 part
├─sda2   8:2    0  19.5G  0 part /
└─sda3   8:3    0   2.7M  0 part [SWAP]
sdb      8:16   0 465.8G  0 disk
└─sdb1   8:17   0    20M  0 part
sdc      8:32   1  28.8G  0 disk
└─sdc1   8:33   1    20M  0 part
sr0     11:0    1  1024M  0 rom
sr1     11:1    1  1024M  0 rom
alpine_paco:/home/brad# mount -t ext4 /dev/sdc1 /mnt
mount: mounting /dev/sdc1 on /mnt failed: Invalid argument

JuanKenobi · 01-25-2022, 11:13 PM

why are sdb1 and sdc1 only 20M? even the EFI partition should be at least 200M. are you sure that it has been formatted with ext4 filesystem?

# fdisk -l would show more useful output if you have it installed. or

# parted -l

lattimro · 01-26-2022, 12:12 PM

I am not sure if you noticed this was on alpine-linux. On ubuntu, for instance, there are no errors, I can mount OK.
Yes, the flash drive was preformated with mkfs.ext4 and then written with Etcher.

The partition table is msdos (mbr) now changed from gpt.
I formated again but this time I did not write anything on it and there are no errors:

Code:

alpine_paco:/# lsblk
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
fd0      2:0    1    4K  0 disk 
sda      8:0    0 28.6G  0 disk 
├─sda1   8:1    0  9.1G  0 part 
├─sda2   8:2    0 19.5G  0 part /
└─sda3   8:3    0  2.7M  0 part [SWAP]
sdb      8:16   1 28.8G  0 disk 
└─sdb1   8:17   1 28.8G  0 part 
sr0     11:0    1 1024M  0 rom  
sr1     11:1    1 1024M  0 rom  
alpine_paco:/# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
alpine_paco:/# ls /mnt
lost+found
alpine_paco:/#

I wrote it with Etcher and on ubuntu worked just fine:

Code:

sdb       8:16   1  28.8G  0 disk 
└─sdb1    8:17   1    20M  0 part /media/brad/TinyCore
sr0      11:0    1  1024M  0 rom

on alpine:

Code:

alpine_paco:/# lsblk
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
fd0      2:0    1    4K  0 disk 
sda      8:0    0 28.6G  0 disk 
├─sda1   8:1    0  9.1G  0 part 
├─sda2   8:2    0 19.5G  0 part /
└─sda3   8:3    0  2.7M  0 part [SWAP]
sdb      8:16   1 28.8G  0 disk 
└─sdb1   8:17   1   20M  0 part 
sr0     11:0    1 1024M  0 rom  
sr1     11:1    1 1024M  0 rom  
alpine_paco:/# mount -t ext4 /dev/sdb1 /mnt
mount: mounting /dev/sdb1 on /mnt failed: Invalid argument
alpine_paco:/#

Code:

alpine_paco:/# parted -l
Model: ATA Maxtor 33073H3 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 30.7GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End     Size    Type     File system     Flags
 1      32.3kB  9762MB  9762MB  primary  ntfs
 2      9762MB  30.7GB  21.0GB  primary  ext4            boot
 3      30.7GB  30.7GB  2851kB  primary  linux-swap(v1)


Error: Invalid partition table - recursive partition on /dev/sdb.
Ignore/Cancel? i                                                          
Model: Kingston DataTraveler 3.0 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 30.9GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start  End  Size  Type  File system  Flags


alpine_paco:/#