Re: can't mount sdf1 in stretch, gparted claims its fat32
Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 03 February 2020 14:07:46 David Wright wrote:
>
> > On Mon 03 Feb 2020 at 13:57:08 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > On Monday 03 February 2020 13:17:04 Dan Ritter wrote:
> > > > Actual error message, please.
> > >
> > > gene@coyote:~/PublicA/pi-buster$ sudo mount -tvfat /dev/sdf1
> > > /media/sdf1 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
> > > /dev/sdf1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error
> > >
> > > In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
> > > dmesg | tail or so.
> >
> > What happens if you leave out the type option?
>
> from dmesg:
> 2903654.091619] FAT-fs (sdf1): bogus number of reserved sectors
> [2903654.091622] FAT-fs (sdf1): Can't find a valid FAT filesystem
> [2911401.900020] FAT-fs (sdf1): invalid media value (0x00)
> [2911401.900031] FAT-fs (sdf1): Can't find a valid FAT filesystem
>
>
> I duuno what to make of that!
There's no FAT filesystem there. It might be corrupted, it might
actually be on /dev/sdf with a bogus partition table.
-dsr-
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