New to Mint and initial problems.

[Gareth]

Hi All
So I watched all the Youtube videos and it seemed a pretty obvious choice, and then again it always does at the beginning. I have come from a Windows background going back to MS-DOS. I am reasonably competent but Linux is a bit different and not quite as straight forward as the videos. Anyways............. this is today's problem.
I have Win10 operating from a small SSD that works offline (I have made it so). I have Linux Mint Cinnamon running on a separate small SSD.
I have other two SSDs, one 2tb for photos, one 1tb for work. Neither show up as mounted although they can be seen in the command box and on Disks.
All SSDs are internal SATA SSDs. Work and Photos are NTFS, they were formatted after Fast Start (on Windows) was disabled, and then loaded from back-up.
I have created two folders, one called work, one called photos and tried to mount them there. But this failed as below:

gareth@gareth-MS-7B89:~$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda 8:0 0 223.6G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 100M 0 part /boot/efi
├─sda2 8:2 0 16M 0 part
├─sda3 8:3 0 120G 0 part
└─sda4 8:4 0 507M 0 part
sdb 8:16 0 931.5G 0 disk
├─sdb1 8:17 0 128M 0 part
└─sdb2 8:18 0 931.4G 0 part
sdc 8:32 0 238.5G 0 disk
└─sdc1 8:33 0 238.5G 0 part /
sdd 8:48 0 1.8T 0 disk
├─sdd1 8:49 0 16M 0 part
└─sdd2 8:50 0 1.8T 0 part
gareth@gareth-MS-7B89:~$ sudo mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt/work/
[sudo] password for gareth:
mount: /mnt/work: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb2, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.
dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.

If anyone could give me a step by step way of dealing with this, I would be very appreciative.

Yours, Gareth

 

[tpkusr]

Did you try to mount sdb2 and sdd2 from disks? If not try it first.

 

[Gareth]

Thanks for coming back.

As above the first attempt was sdb2 (partition) I didn't try to do sdd2 as the first one failed.

Ok I tried to mount sdd2 and that worked but when I tried sdb2 afterwards, that failed again in the same way.

 

[f33dm3bits]

As above the first attempt was sdb2 (partition) I didn't try to do sdd2 as the first one failed.

Can you share the output of the following?

sudo parted -l

 

[Gareth]

Model: ATA OCZ-VERTEX4 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdc: 256GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 256GB 256GB primary ext4


Model: ATA CT2000BX500SSD1 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdd: 2000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 17.4kB 16.8MB 16.8MB Microsoft reserved partition msftres
2 16.8MB 2000GB 2000GB ntfs Basic data partition msftdata

This is the "photo" SSD that has mounted and the Linus Mint OS SSD

 

[f33dm3bits]

Find it odd that sda and sdb are not listed there. It recognizes the ntfs file-system of the one you were successfully able to mount which is sdd2.

What's the output of the following?

sudo dmesg | grep -E "sda|sdb"

 

[Gareth]

gareth@gareth-MS-7B89:~$ sudo dmesg | grep -E "sda|sdb"
[ 1.565978] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 468862128 512-byte logical blocks: (240 GB/224 GiB)
[ 1.566005] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 1.566009] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 1.566026] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 1.566055] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Preferred minimum I/O size 512 bytes
[ 1.585109] sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4
[ 1.585325] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
[ 2.053542] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] 1953525168 512-byte logical blocks: (1.00 TB/932 GiB)
[ 2.053556] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 2.053560] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 2.053578] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 2.053616] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Preferred minimum I/O size 512 bytes
[ 2.070837] sdb: sdb1 sdb2
[ 2.071029] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
[ 4122.426633] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Synchronizing SCSI cache
[ 4122.427597] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Synchronizing SCSI cache
[ 4123.628658] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Starting disk
[ 4123.630790] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Starting disk
[ 5278.212603] sdb: sdb1 sdb2

 

[f33dm3bits]

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 17.4kB 16.8MB 16.8MB Microsoft reserved partition msftres
2 16.8MB 2000GB 2000GB ntfs Basic data partition msftdata

This is the "photo" SSD that has mounted and the Linus Mint OS SSD

You talking about sdd?

 

[f33dm3bits]

gareth@gareth-MS-7B89:~$ sudo dmesg | grep -E "sda|sdb"

Seems normal the output.

Can you also share the output of the following?

lsblk -f
sudo fdisk -l

 

[Gareth]

The "photo" SSD is 2tb, partition sdd2
The "work" SSD is 1tb, partition sdb2
sorry for the confusion

 

[f33dm3bits]

The "photo" SSD is 2tb, partition sdd2
The "work" SSD is 1tb, partition sdb2

Those both have ntfs file-systems?

 

[Gareth]

areth@gareth-MS-7B89:~$ lsblk -f
NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
sda
├─sda1 vfat FAT32 58A1-8AB1 64.6M 33% /boot/efi
├─sda2
├─sda3 ntfs 6EB2A77BB2A74685
└─sda4 ntfs C6C82B09C82AF779
sdb
├─sdb1
└─sdb2
sdc
└─sdc1 ext4 1.0 8edcd43b-feec-4223-a8d8-fcf71e46ca54 203.6G 8% /
sdd
├─sdd1
└─sdd2 ntfs SSD - Photo Archive 7620BCDF20BCA80F 608.9G 67% /mnt/photos

 

[Gareth]

Those both have ntfs file-systems?

Yes

 

[Gareth]

gareth@gareth-MS-7B89:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 223.57 GiB, 240057409536 bytes, 468862128 sectors
Disk model: KINGSTON SA400S3
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: BDBB12DC-8A06-4621-BACC-439DD3EC668A

Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sda1 2048 206847 204800 100M EFI System
/dev/sda2 206848 239615 32768 16M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sda3 239616 251963459 251723844 120G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda4 467820544 468858879 1038336 507M Windows recovery environment


Disk /dev/sdb: 931.51 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Disk model: WDC WDS100T2B0A
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 8C48124F-B7B3-11EB-BF08-BC305BE0F5EF

Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sdb1 2048 264191 262144 128M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sdb2 264192 1953523711 1953259520 931.4G Microsoft Storage Spaces


Disk /dev/sdc: 238.47 GiB, 256060514304 bytes, 500118192 sectors
Disk model: OCZ-VERTEX4
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x72acce12

Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdc1 2048 500115329 500113282 238.5G 83 Linux


Disk /dev/sdd: 1.82 TiB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors
Disk model: CT2000BX500SSD1
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: F608E359-FD7C-4372-911C-F20C7FF75F5D

Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sdd1 34 32767 32734 16M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sdd2 32768 3907026943 3906994176 1.8T Microsoft basic data

 

[f33dm3bits]

Ar

Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sdb1 2048 264191 262144 128M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sdb2 264192 1953523711 1953259520 931.4G Microsoft Storage Spaces

What happens when you mount sdb2 like this?

sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb2 /mnt/work
sudo mount -t ntfs-3g  /dev/sdb2 /mnt/work

Then also share the output of this.

sudo mount | grep sdb

Are you able to mount sda3 and sda4?

 

[Gareth]

gareth@gareth-MS-7B89:~$ sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb2 /mnt/work
NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount '/dev/sdb2': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sdb2' 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?

 

[Gareth]

gareth@gareth-MS-7B89:~$ sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb2 /mnt/work
NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount '/dev/sdb2': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sdb2' 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?

 

[Gareth]

gareth@gareth-MS-7B89:~$ sudo mount | grep sdb
gareth@gareth-MS-7B89:~$
Produced nothing.

 

[Gareth]

Are you able to mount sda3 and sda4?

Do you want me to attempt sda2, 3 and 4? or just 3 and 4?

 

[f33dm3bits]

Do you want me to attempt sda2, 3 and 4? or just 3 and 4?

Just one of the two is fine.