mount wrong fs type , bad otpion , bad superblock on /dev/sdb1

shak · 2009-03-31 20:07:25

Hi guys !

I have the following issue with mounting external usb devices as well as my windows partition (ntfs) . I had kdemod4 and didn't have this issue (although i had to edit the policies of hal because of an error) but after going back to kdemod3 i get the message mount wrong fs type , bad otpion , bad superblock on /dev/sdb1 missing code page or helper program .....

Can anyone help me ?

THanks for your help !

markisthejob · 2009-03-31 21:40:27

Are your usb devices also ntfs? Did you install ntfs-3g

haxit · 2009-03-31 23:23:07

Please post your /etc/fstab.

shak · 2009-04-01 08:19:07

ntfs-3g is installed , i had kdemod4 and it was working fine , after removing kdemod4 and installing kdemod3 i have this issue . the external usb devices are also ntfs .

this is my /etc/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 /media/cd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
#/dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /media/fl auto user,noauto 0 0

UUID=15cd63d8-4900-4eb6-b1f1-f540b16e3e2f swap swap defaults 0 0
UUID=6a749c6e-02b4-43fc-ac07-6227ccc5f639 /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
UUID=913d595d-d35a-4741-9ef2-12dbc4f78463 / ext3 defaults 0 1

PS : I Have managed to mount the external hard drives following the hal archwiki ( , but i can't seem to mount the windows partition . i still get the same message

Last edited by shak (2009-04-01 09:37:11)

perbh · 2009-04-01 13:16:36

For one thing - always put the '/' (the root filesystem) at the top of your list

Otherwise - have you tried to 'manually' (as root) tried to mount it?
mkdir /mnt/whatever; chmod a+rwx /mnt/whatever
mount -t ntfs-3g -o umask=000 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/whatever

(don't know how many times I have adviced this ... and they never come back saying it doesn't work)

shak · 2009-04-01 21:11:41

thanks for your help ! yes i can manually mount the windows partition with your suggestion but is there a way to automount this partition ? Automount is working with my external drives but not with the windows partition .

perbh · 2009-04-02 00:31:41

Oh there are ways and means - personally, if I can make it work - that's it.
I'm just too lazy to follow any trouble to a glorious and perfect end ..

But each to his or her own ...

12o · 2010-06-05 17:42:31

I realize this is a really old thread, but I found it very useful and wanted to keep relevant information together rather than make a new, redundant thread.

@perbh

I stumbled on this forum looking for an ntfs mount answer. Thanks for the info. I kept coming up with this error:

$ sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb /media/seagate
Password: 
NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount '/dev/sdb': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sdb' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?

I went back through the dmesg and found this little gem...

 sdb: sdb1 < sdb5 >

After mounting /dev/sdb5 instead of sdb1, it worked perfectly.

I do, however, have a clarity question regarding the fstab. I'm still a bit new to Linux and am interested in your point of / being first. Did you mean at the very top of the entire list like this?

# 
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
UUID=b5c76bc3-4f41-4146-8ac2-fb5471f17e71 / xfs defaults 0 1

none                   /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
none                   /dev/shm      tmpfs     defaults            0      0

/dev/cdrom             /media/cd   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/dvd               /media/dvd  auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
#/dev/fd0               /media/fl   auto    user,noauto             0      0

UUID=5021f4ba-3107-4437-a678-d165af9e954e /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
UUID=9ca18502-2c4e-4757-a754-457924d38886 swap swap defaults 0 0
UUID=c07f0425-48f9-4611-8aca-06506390a3e0 /home xfs defaults 0 1

... or the top of the UUID list like this (which is how I have it now):

# 
# /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             /media/cd   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/dvd               /media/dvd  auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
#/dev/fd0               /media/fl   auto    user,noauto             0      0

UUID=b5c76bc3-4f41-4146-8ac2-fb5471f17e71 / xfs defaults 0 1
UUID=5021f4ba-3107-4437-a678-d165af9e954e /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
UUID=9ca18502-2c4e-4757-a754-457924d38886 swap swap defaults 0 0
UUID=c07f0425-48f9-4611-8aca-06506390a3e0 /home xfs defaults 0 1

Thank you very much for the advice.

Last edited by 12o (2010-06-05 17:44:19)

schen · 2010-06-05 17:47:19

Err... this thread is a year old.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/For … Bumping.27

As an answer to your question, a quick wiki search brought this up:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fstab#UUIDs

12o · 2010-06-05 18:00:17

Oops. My apologies to everyone. I read the Bumping rule, and it won't happen again. Thank you for the links, schen.

avasam · 2020-12-23 20:29:22

installing ntfs-3g helped me.
use :
yay -S ntfs-3g

Last edited by avasam (2020-12-23 20:29:32)

V1del · 2020-12-23 20:41:47

Please don't necrobump 10 year old topics

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … bumping%22

Closing.

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#1 2009-03-31 20:07:25

mount wrong fs type , bad otpion , bad superblock on /dev/sdb1

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