try running (as root): file -s /dev/sdd file -s /dev/sdd1
and see if they say anything interesting? -wes On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 10:59 AM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
