Xubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 computers, up to date. Same issues on both. I recently bought two 256GB USB drives from an eBay seller in China. They arrove yesterday, and I quickly discovered that they had two partitions, a small one of about 10GB and another with the rest of the drive. The literature with it says 'Micro Vault contains a system management area.' This sounded fishy to me, so I used Gnome Disk Utility to delete both partitions and 'erase' the disks. This took overnight, and this morning they appeared fine.
With my new clean disks on each disk I created one partition for the entire disk, labeled them 256GB-1 and 256GB-2, and set about formatting them ext4. They look OK in the GUIs (Gnome Disk Utility and GParted), but won't mount: Error mounting /dev/sdd1 at /media/jjj/256GB-1: Command-line `mount -t "ext4" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid" "/dev/sdd1" "/media/jjj/256GB-1"' exited with non-zero exit status 32: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdd1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error So I tried: sudo e2fsck -p /dev/sdd1 #-p = 'preen,' i.e. fix all errors 256GB-1: Superblock has an invalid journal (inode 8). CLEARED. *** ext3 journal has been deleted - filesystem is now ext2 only *** 256GB-1: Superblock has_journal flag is clear, but a journal is present. CLEARED. 256GB-1: Journal inode is not in use, but contains data. CLEARED. 256GB-1: Recreate journal. Creating journal (32768 blocks): Done. *** journal has been re-created - filesystem is now ext3 again *** 256GB-1: 11/15360000 files (0.0% non-contiguous), 1011899/61439744 blocks I don't completely understand what e2fsck did above, but it looks like it fixed things. However, attempts to mount it result in the same error message as above. Suggestions? _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug