[Bradford] New laptop, cannot mount partitions

[Steve Wilson]

It doesn't look like there's a filesystem configured on there, have you 
missed/overlooked any mkfs commands?

If there's a filesystem/swap configured there should be a FILE= output 
to blkid.

Do you have a link to the instructions you've been following? Also was 
there anything on the disk before which you're trying to keep?

Steve.

On 10/03/2019 00:16, Devo Too via Bradford wrote:
> The responses are on the laptop and I'm having to type this on the PC as 
> haven't been able to get into the laptop hdd. Nothing gets written onto 
> it sofar as I can tell. I have to switch the keyboard layout from US to 
> UK each time I switch it on.
> 
> # blkid
> /dev/sda1 Label=System, UUID= {string}, vfat and PARTUUID= {string}
> /dev/sda2 PARTUUID= {string}
> /dev/sda3 PARTUUID= {string}
> 
> On 09/03/2019 23:37, Steve Wilson via Bradford wrote:
>> What's the output of blkid show?
>>
>> This should allow you to identify the actual file system used on the 
>> partition, it might be a case of making sure the filesystem 
>> tools/progs package is installed for the specific file system.
>>
>> I've not tried arch so I don't the the OS specific details, maybe it's 
>> time I had a play with it.
>>
>> Steve.
>>
>> On 09/03/2019 23:06, Devo Too via Bradford wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 09/03/2019 19:49, Darren Drapkin wrote:
>>>> On Saturday 09 Mar 2019 17:19:38 Devo Too via Bradford wrote:
>>>>> Hi Folks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Shiny new laptop received yesterday. Followed the Arch Wiki to set up
>>>>> from a .iso on a memory stick and all looked well until - immediately
>>>>> after partitioning the hard drive, trying the mount command.
>>>>>
>>>>> For both sda2 (root partition set as Linux root (x86-64), using mount
>>>>> /dev/sda2 /mnt) and sda3 (home partition set as Linux filesystem, 
>>>>> using
>>>>> mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/home having set up /mnt/home directory).
>>>>>
>>>>> sda1 is an EFI System partition and mounted OK.
>>>>>
>>>>> At the mount command, both partitions, response is:
>>>>>
>>>>> /mnt: wrong fs type,
>>>> This suggests to me that you have to specify the type of filling system
>>>> explicitly, for some reason #mount /dev/sda2 /  is not enough. 
>>>> Possibly you
>>>> will need to make sure you are mounting the root partition on the 
>>>> right place
>>>> and you may need a# -t option
>>>
>>> Done that - tried both as 'Linux filesystem', which all the tutorials 
>>> sanction, then root as 'Linux root (x86-64)' with the same response 
>>> each time.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> bad option,
>>>>> bad superblock on /dev/sda2, missing
>>>> Bad superblock suggests that you may have that rare thing on a 
>>>> modern hard
>>>> drive, an actual defective sector. You may need to run fsck on it.
>>>
>>> As it occurs on two partitions, each occupying separate sets of 
>>> sectors, it would surely indicate at least two bad sectors? But 
>>> thanks, I'll try fsck too.
>>>>
>>>>> codepage or helper program, or other error
>>>>>
>>>>> Google searches haven't thrown any light on the topic so far 
>>>>> although it
>>>>> is a commonly reported problem.
>>>
>>> One of several more G searches suggests the possibility of a 
>>> corrupted kernel in the download. That .iso has been in the Arch 
>>> Downloads since 1st March and I used the Bytemark repository, which 
>>> I'd trust more than most, as source. It's none too convincing. 
>>> Besides, most of the searches have thrown up reports from over a year 
>>> ago and there probably was a kernel corruption in the December 2017 
>>> release most mention.
>>>>>
>>>>> Do any of you have ideas?
>>>>>
>>>>> Could it be a hard drive problem? I've tried unsuccessfully to use 
>>>>> both
>>>>> parted and fsdisk to do the partitioning. It's a 960GB hdd so I 
>>>>> suspect
>>>>> it should have 4KB sectors rather than 512 bytes, although the system
>>>>> reports otherwise.
>>>>>
>>>>> All pointers welcome.
>>>>>
>>>>> TIA.
>>>>>
>>>>> Mike
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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