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Error trying to mount

I am trying to partition and mount a hard drive onto my /hdd folder to use. Every time I try mounting it I get,

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sdb1
mke2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
mkfs.ext3: inode_size (128) * inodes_count (0) too big for a
filesystem with 0 blocks, specify higher inode_ratio (-i)
or lower inode count (-N).

[10:45:01 AM] FANTA: I am trying to partition and mount a hard drive onto my /hdd folder to use. Every time I try mounting it I get,

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

And when I try making a ext3 filesystem i get

[root@m1725 /]# mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sdb1
mke2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
mkfs.ext3: inode_size (128) * inodes_count (0) too big for a
filesystem with 0 blocks, specify higher inode_ratio (-i)
or lower inode count (-N).

Comments

  • xsetxset Member

    m1724, dedicated? fdisk -l /dev/sdb

  • SnickertasticSnickertastic Member
    edited August 2013

    root@m1725 /]# fdisk -l /dev/sdb

    Disk /dev/sdb: 2995.7 GB, 2995729203200 bytes
    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 364209 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: 0x300aefe4

    Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
    /dev/sdb1 1 267349 2147480811 5 Extended

  • hard to tell from the formatting, but doesn't look like you have a valid partition on the disk

  • Is there away to reformat that drive without reformatting the server ?

  • jhjh Member

    If you just want 1 partition you can just do "mkfs"

  • xsetxset Member

    @snuckertastic try to remove the partition and create it as primary partition, reboot and mkfs then

  • 3TB drive? fdisk can't handle larger than 2TB partitions.. you need to use parted and GPT partition table.

  • MaouniqueMaounique Host Rep, Veteran

    gdisk will work just fine.

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