I’m facing a really weird Problem atm.
I have a Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11 (i know…) that i’m trying to mount a USB HDD to. No big deal, right?
So, the first interesting thing is, that lsblk is not there. I haven’t worked with Suse that old, so that might be normal. From Size i could infer, that /dev/sdc is my usb HDD, and lsusb shows, the WD Drive is detected.
So far, so good. I use fdisk to create a single 1TB partition and mkfs.ext3 to format it. All working as intended, no errors. Now, mount -t ext3 /dev/sdc1 /mnt/wd leaves me with
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
dmesg | tail shows the following: [11549124.575339] VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sdc.
I also tried mount -t auto and formating to ext2. I’m a bit lost here. I also recreated the partition table with fdisk. Without success. How can i now determine, if the partition is correctly formatted at all, and what am i doing wrong in the mounting process?