I currently have two hard drives installed on my computer:
$ sudo lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT,LABEL
NAME FSTYPE SIZE MOUNTPOINT LABEL
sda 465.8G
├─sda1 ext4 10.5G
├─sda2 ext4 3.4G
└─sda4 ext4 233.3G /
sdb 465.8G
sr0 1024M
sdb is my second drive, which is currently empty. I would like to mount to it to copy some files to it before using it as a backup drive.
Note that sdb, as expected, exists in the device folder as a disk file:
/dev$ ls -l | grep sdb
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 16 Mar 2 11:14 sdb
I created a directory called backup in my media directory:
/media$ sudo mkdir backup
I tried to mount to it:
sudo mount /dev/sdb /media/backup
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
I tried to specify filesystem type:
sudo mount /dev/sdb /media/backup
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
/media$ sudo mount -t ext4 /dev/sdb /media/backup
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
I don't know what all these errors are about. sdb is an unformatted drive. I just want to mount to it to view it for right now.