Mount failing on WD USB ext drive with error exit code 1

jonnas · 10-22-2011, 04:56 AM

Hi-

This is starting to get fustrating. Bought a WD 1TB USB drive and have been trying to use it with my mini Linux server. Problems with mounting the device even after I upgraded the Linux version and reformatted the drive to ext 4.

What next?

TobiSGD · 10-22-2011, 05:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jonnas

What next?

May be posting the exact command and error message you get?

jonnas · 10-22-2011, 11:10 AM

Hi the error code was:

Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

jonnas · 10-22-2011, 11:12 AM

Hi the error code was:

Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

hen770 · 10-22-2011, 11:24 AM

Post what the the last line at your last post tell you, and post it too.

jonnas · 10-23-2011, 03:42 AM

Hi, a bit more detail on the error messages:

jon@media-srv:~$ dmesg |tail
[ 1539.509656] UDF-fs: No anchor found
[ 1539.509681] UDF-fs: Rescanning with blocksize 2048
[ 1539.521926] UDF-fs: No anchor found
[ 1539.521946] UDF-fs: No partition found (1)
[ 1539.561659] ISOFS: Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
[25946.400142] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
[25946.408065] EXT3 FS on sdb1, internal journal
[25946.408095] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[34468.604401] longhaul: Failed to set requested frequency!
[34468.604420] longhaul: Switching to Longhaul ver. 1

---------- Post added 10-23-11 at 03:43 AM ----------

Hi, a bit more detail on the error messages:

jon@media-srv:~$ dmesg |tail
[ 1539.509656] UDF-fs: No anchor found
[ 1539.509681] UDF-fs: Rescanning with blocksize 2048
[ 1539.521926] UDF-fs: No anchor found
[ 1539.521946] UDF-fs: No partition found (1)
[ 1539.561659] ISOFS: Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
[25946.400142] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
[25946.408065] EXT3 FS on sdb1, internal journal
[25946.408095] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[34468.604401] longhaul: Failed to set requested frequency!
[34468.604420] longhaul: Switching to Longhaul ver. 1

TobiSGD · 10-23-2011, 04:03 AM

The messages state that the filesystem is mounted, are there some lines missing?

jonnas · 10-23-2011, 04:11 AM

Yes, just noticed that (switched from ext4 to ext 3). Now trying to format drive.

Jonnas

jonnas · 10-23-2011, 04:28 AM

Still no luck, error details:

jon@media-srv:~$ dmesg |tail
[85264.190819] UDF-fs: Rescanning with blocksize 2048
[85264.213652] UDF-fs: No anchor found
[85264.213673] UDF-fs: No partition found (1)
[85264.259282] ISOFS: Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
[86403.833481] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode
[86443.701210] UDF-fs: No anchor found
[86443.701234] UDF-fs: Rescanning with blocksize 2048
[86443.818694] UDF-fs: No anchor found
[86443.818718] UDF-fs: No partition found (1)
[86443.868945] ISOFS: Unable to identify CD-ROM format.

---------- Post added 10-23-11 at 04:28 AM ----------

Still no luck, error details:

jon@media-srv:~$ dmesg |tail
[85264.190819] UDF-fs: Rescanning with blocksize 2048
[85264.213652] UDF-fs: No anchor found
[85264.213673] UDF-fs: No partition found (1)
[85264.259282] ISOFS: Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
[86403.833481] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode
[86443.701210] UDF-fs: No anchor found
[86443.701234] UDF-fs: Rescanning with blocksize 2048
[86443.818694] UDF-fs: No anchor found
[86443.818718] UDF-fs: No partition found (1)
[86443.868945] ISOFS: Unable to identify CD-ROM format.

TobiSGD · 10-23-2011, 05:04 AM

Again, it seems like it mounts the partition. Are there more lines regarding this?
Please post the exact command you use for mounting.

business_kid · 10-23-2011, 10:28 AM

Looks like there's a bit going on. Next time you come to this, try

dmesg |tail -n 50
:-D.
Then you can see the whole thing. It looks like your kernel is not reading whatever you are mounting. If you know what the filesystem type is, specify it.
mount -t <type> /dev/something /somewhere

Beware that ntfs responds to ntfs-3g :-/. Also look at it with fdisk -l

jonnas · 10-24-2011, 07:22 AM

Thanks for your help to date, bit busy today, but will try all of your suggstions tomorrow evening.

jonnas · 10-26-2011, 01:52 PM

Thanks very much for all you help. Mounting using mount - t usbfs /dev/sdb /ext_drive works fine, so why doesn't the automount features (Nautilus?)

Will now need to edit the init.d file to mount automatically, should look at documentation, but a quick hint at which fil to edit woudl be useful

Then have to go back and sort out the samba config file so that I can get this machine back to mini-server status.

Jonnas

business_kid · 10-26-2011, 05:03 PM

usual thing is a file in /etc somewhere rc.sysinit, which calls scripts found in /etc/rc.d, perhaps /etc/trc.d/init.d.

There's a command to mount all automatically if you set up fstab, Thats how your other partitions come in. Put it in /etc/fstab and don't use noauto

jonnas · 10-27-2011, 03:43 AM

Yes, edited the mountall.sh file in the init.d directory which I think has done the trick (just have to make sure file permissions etc work). Would like to stop the GUI disk manager thingy showing the WD drive on my computer, but trivial and may not even try to fix that.

I am having a few problems getting Samba to work properly now as I'm not able to create directories or copy files from my windows box, but that is another story (and maybe another thread...)

Once again, thanks for your help.

Jonnas