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Kardell

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From: London a new Babylon

Registered: 2007-02-20

Posts: 228

[mount] wrong fs type

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

Yes I see this msg always when I`m changing fs type i.e. fat32 to ntfs, but I`m really upset when this msg appears, when my Arch is loading.
It`s weird that whole operating system depends on non-system partition.
Finally the Arch becomes non-operational.

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Flying Saxman

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From: Northern Hesse

Registered: 2007-02-26

Posts: 252

Re: [mount] wrong fs type

Have you changed the fs-type in your fstab?

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Kardell

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From: London a new Babylon

Registered: 2007-02-20

Posts: 228

Re: [mount] wrong fs type

Of course not. This msg tells that I didn`t.
Windows partition formats are more often than Linux ext3 & etc. fss, that`s why fstab corrections are becoming boring.
Is that maybe lack of autodetect module?

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Flying Saxman

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From: Northern Hesse

Registered: 2007-02-26

Posts: 252

Re: [mount] wrong fs type

I only asked because I got this message (wrong fs type) every time, I switched a filesystem on a partition but forgot to update the fstab. (last example: Fat32 -> ReiserFS. Formated it, rebooted and wondered where my backup-partition is...)

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robertp

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From: Warszawa, Poland

Registered: 2007-09-11

Posts: 123

Re: [mount] wrong fs type

Mount supports auto-detection of file system type. Just substitute specific file system type (ext2, vfat) with autofs in /etc/fstab.
You can read more about it in mount manual.

Last edited by robertp (2007-09-11 12:07:41)

Omnutia

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Registered: 2007-08-05

Posts: 12

Re: [mount] wrong fs type

Hi, I'm having the same problem. I tried changing file system to autofs and I got the same error.

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda4,
       missing codepage or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

My fstab

#
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
none                   /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
none                   /dev/shm      tmpfs     defaults            0      0


/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom   iso9660   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/fd0   vfat   user,noauto   0      0
/dev/sda1 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda4          /store          autofs      defaults               0      2

Omnutia

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Registered: 2007-08-05

Posts: 12

Re: [mount] wrong fs type

Well that's done it, I had mounted the main partition as swap and was trying to mount the swap. Lost about 100gb of data (which was mostly backup thankfully). Back to the drawing board.