Problem mounting an external USB Drive

Maxxd · 10-02-2011, 07:09 AM

The drive is completely ok (it works on other OS), but on Debian 6.0 when I plug the usb I get:

Quote:

Unable to mount xpto
Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

fdisk -l /dev/sdb gives me:

Quote:

Disk /dev/sdb: 400.1 GB, 400088457216 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 48641 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x33063bfd

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 48640 390700768+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

and dmesg | tail:

Quote:

[ 2445.895406] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 2445.897417] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 2445.897430] sdb: sdb1
[ 2445.910185] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 2445.910194] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
[ 2446.463708] UDF-fs: No VRS found
[ 2446.463714] UDF-fs: Rescanning with blocksize 2048
[ 2446.467845] UDF-fs: No VRS found
[ 2446.467851] UDF-fs: No partition found (1)
[ 2446.504217] ISOFS: Unable to identify CD-ROM format.

What do you think?

amani · 10-02-2011, 10:05 AM

mount it correctly.
#man mount
do you have the tools for the fs installed?
ntfs-3g

Bertical · 10-02-2011, 10:12 AM

If you installed Debian from a USB stick you will find something like

Code:

/dev/sdb1       /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0

towards the bottom of /etc/fstab. This means anything that the system finds called /dev/sdb1 it treats it like a cdrom.

You need to become root and comment the line out so it looks like

Code:

#/dev/sdb1       /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0