On Fri, 20 Jul 2018 10:59:15 -0700 John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> dijo:
>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. I forgot to add this at the end of dmesg: [409193.220879] JBD2: no valid journal superblock found [409193.220882] EXT4-fs (sdd1): error loading journal _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
