[SOLVED] Linux (Red Hat Enterprise/CentOS) is not mounting /dev/sda4 partiton

standards · 05-03-2015, 05:53 AM

I have a Windows Partition which is at /dev/sda4. It is "Microsft Basic Data" and whenever I try to Mount it,it does not accept it. It says, "Unknown file system type '(null)' " and i cant read my data.
PARTED output
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 20.5kB 210MB 210MB fat32 EFI System Partition boot
2 211MB 420MB 210MB fat16 EFI System Partition boot
3 420MB 945MB 524MB xfs
5 945MB 650GB 649GB lvm
4 650GB 1000GB 350GB WindowsPartition
EDIT:
I am deleting THE partiton and now have a img file of the partiton

TenTenths · 05-03-2015, 08:27 AM

So what file system is that partition formatted with?

standards · 05-03-2015, 08:55 AM

Basic Data

michaelk · 05-03-2015, 09:43 AM

It would help if you provided a bit more information. A basic data partition can be formated with any filesystem i.e. assuming Microsoft FAT32, NTFS, exFAT. So how was it created and formatted?

TenTenths · 05-03-2015, 09:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by michaelk

It would help if you provided a bit more information. A basic data partition can be formated with any filesystem i.e. assuming Microsoft FAT32, NTFS, exFAT. So how was it created and formatted?

You beat me to it!

michaelk · 05-03-2015, 10:06 AM

Sorry...

standards · 05-03-2015, 11:48 AM

I tried ntfs 3G and it says it hasa. Invalid nfts signiture .I don't know

John VV · 05-03-2015, 03:48 PM

what is the output of

Code:

su -
fdisk -l

what information dose that show about it

michaelk · 05-03-2015, 04:15 PM

Since this is a GPT disk fdisk will not help. The OP has not provided much information except "I don't know"

What version of RHEL or CentOS are you running? You don't have any idea how the partition was created or formatted?
Did you install linux on this computer?

You can try the file command. Post the output
file -s /dev/sda4

syg00 · 05-03-2015, 06:46 PM

To be fair to the OP, parted should be able to discover filesystem type. And apparently can't.
I would be guessing a hibernated NTFS - probably Win8. The solution would be to re-boot Windoze and turn off any/all features like fastboot. I don't use Win8 at all, so just guessing.

standards · 05-04-2015, 02:44 PM

Really,I do not need the windows partitio anymore,so a admin can delete this thered.You can still help me,but i am just redownloading my data.Have a nice day.