[SOLVED] Mounting a second drive

camorri · 05-04-2020, 10:36 AM

Is nick you user name ?

Big picture, where are you trying to mount this drive? Is it in your home directory?

Is the mount point /nick/Music/music

OR

is it /home/nick/Music/music ? This is a critical difference.

In order to have it /nick/Music/music; as root you would have to do these commands:

cd / ( press enter key )

mkdir nick ( press enter key )

cd /nick ( press enter key )

mkdir Music ( press enter key )

cd Music ( press enter key )

mkdir music ( press enter key )

Is that what you did?

Nuuk · 05-04-2020, 10:36 AM

I changed the fstab file to read

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=42007db2-50af-46ae-9f4c-8b87b87c893f / ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 1

# /dev/sdb1
UUID=3b754aac-49bb-46fd-b3fc-e253449a1f62 /home/nick/Music/music ext4 0 0

and when I used mount -a I got the following message:

Wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb, missing code page or help program or other error.

pan64 · 05-04-2020, 10:37 AM

So decide, if you really want to use /nick/Music/music (or anything else).
execute the following:

Code:

mkdir -p /nick/Music/music # < this is exactly the same path, same directory

Edit your fstab and add this path as mount point.
now try to execute mount -a.
And please post all the output/response...

Nuuk · 05-04-2020, 10:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by camorri

Is nick you user name ?

Big picture, where are you trying to mount this drive? Is it in your home directory?

Is the mount point /nick/Music/music

OR

is it /home/nick/Music/music ? This is a critical difference.

In order to have it /nick/Music/music; as root you would have to do these commands:

cd / ( press enter key )

mkdir nick ( press enter key )

cd /nick ( press enter key )

mkdir Music ( press enter key )

cd Music ( press enter key )

mkdir music ( press enter key )

Is that what you did?

No Cliff, I assumed as I can see the nick directory in file manager, with another directory in it called Music, I simply made a new directory called music in that.

camorri · 05-04-2020, 10:45 AM

Quote:

I simply made a new directory called music in that.

OK good, that is what I had originally thought you had done.

Quote:

and when I used mount -a I got the following message:

Wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb, missing code page or help program or other error.

I don't see anything wrong with the entry you posted for the mount in fstab. I'm going to suggest you check the UUID for sdb1, if that is incorrect it could cause this error. The other items in this command look OK.

Nuuk · 05-04-2020, 10:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pan64

So decide, if you really want to use /nick/Music/music (or anything else).
execute the following:

Code:

mkdir -p /nick/Music/music # < this is exactly the same path, same directory

Edit your fstab and add this path as mount point.
now try to execute mount -a.
And please post all the output/response...

Followed your instructions and got

Wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb, missing code page or help program or other error.

Nuuk · 05-04-2020, 10:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by camorri

Is nick you user name ?

Big picture, where are you trying to mount this drive? Is it in your home directory?

Is the mount point /nick/Music/music

OR

is it /home/nick/Music/music ? This is a critical difference.

In order to have it /nick/Music/music; as root you would have to do these commands:

cd / ( press enter key )

mkdir nick ( press enter key )

cd /nick ( press enter key )

mkdir Music ( press enter key )

cd Music ( press enter key )

mkdir music ( press enter key )

Is that what you did?

Thanks again Cliff. I assume that having followed pan64's instructions (mkdir -p /nick/Music/music) I have now created /nick/Music/music.

pan64 · 05-04-2020, 10:59 AM

so probably that is /dev/sdb1. But it is only a guess.
what is the output of fdisk -l /dev/sdb?

Nuuk · 05-04-2020, 12:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pan64

so probably that is /dev/sdb1. But it is only a guess.
what is the output of fdisk -l /dev/sdb?

I've given up for today, and will resume battle tomorrow.

camorri · 05-04-2020, 12:07 PM

Nuuk,

I get this is a battle. Hang in there.

The command lsblk -f will tell us a lot more. Hopefully you can find the Quote tag, and paste the results.

lsblk -f will show all drives, and the file system type, and UUID's associated with each partition.

Take a deep breath, we'll fix what ever is wrong.

Nuuk · 05-04-2020, 12:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by camorri

Nuuk,

I get this is a battle. Hang in there.

The command lsblk -f will tell us a lot more. Hopefully you can find the Quote tag, and paste the results.

lsblk -f will show all drives, and the file system type, and UUID's associated with each partition.

Take a deep breath, we'll fix what ever is wrong.

Thanks Cliff. Where is that quote tag?

camorri · 05-04-2020, 12:17 PM

Look at the box called Quick Reply. Next line down says Message: ( in smaller type ). Below that you should see seven icons to allow you to change the appearance of the type message. ( all in the area where you type your response.

The right most one looks like a quote with writing in it. That is the quote icon. Click it, and look in the quick reply box. You should see . You paste the message in the middle. I will see if I can make an image of it and post it.

camorri · 05-04-2020, 12:28 PM

There is also a Reply to Thread option on LQ. It has more options to modify responses. Not sure which one you are using. On Reply to Thread window, the Quote icon is in the second row, 14 positions to the right. I think I have managed to upload an image from Quick Reply.

Nuuk · 05-04-2020, 02:10 PM

Thanks to all for the help today. I've had one last look this evening.

Quote:

nick@apl2 ~ $ lsblk -f
NAME FSTYPE LABEL MOUNTPOINT
sda
└─sda1 /
sdb
sdc
└─sdc1 vfat KINGSTON /media/KINGSTON

I checked the UUID again with sudo blkid

Quote:

apl2 nick # sudo blkid
/dev/sda1: UUID="42007db2-50af-46ae-9f4c-8b87b87c893f" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdb: LABEL="Music" UUID="3b754aac-49bb-46fd-b3fc-e253449a1f62" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdc1: LABEL="KINGSTON" UUID="A543-549F" TYPE="vfat"

and that matches with what I have been using in fstab

And lastly

Quote:

apl2 nick # fdisk -l /dev/sdb

Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table

I am only guessing of course, but is the missing partition table the problem?

JeremyBoden · 05-04-2020, 03:06 PM

The absent partition table is a major problem.
I notice your USB stick has a partition & partition table.
Could you at least do the same for sdb?
Then you could mount sdb1 as whatever...

Note: check what the UUID of sdb1 is before using it.