Cannot mount extra internal hard drive - Error [closed]

Question

All of a sudden I can no longer mount an internal hard drive(/dev/sda aka openSpaceI) via gui or cli.

$ sudo mount /dev/sda /media/openSpaceI

gives this error

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

gives this

$ dmesg | tail
[ 9344.234380] compiz[6098]: segfault at 28 ip 00007f1fa0641335 sp 00007fff0b306700 error 4 in libregex.so[7f1fa063c000+8000]
[ 9987.879043] nautilus[6899]: segfault at 1505b817b60f ip 00007ff6eeefdb8d sp 00007fff09aa6170 error 4 in libgobject-2.0.so.0.2800.6[7ff6eeeca000+4e000]
[10001.231835] compiz[7360]: segfault at 28 ip 00007f38e0cfe335 sp 00007fff3228d380 error 4 in libregex.so[7f38e0cf9000+8000]
[10113.817592] compiz[7429]: segfault at 28 ip 00007f01c11cd335 sp 00007fffac4f4250 error 4 in libregex.so[7f01c11c8000+8000]
[10116.592022] compiz[7651]: segfault at 28 ip 00007f4369548335 sp 00007fffb3b2b030 error 4 in libregex.so[7f4369543000+8000]
[10117.958485] compiz[7666]: segfault at 28 ip 00007f3861d7d335 sp 00007fff268395d0 error 4 in libregex.so[7f3861d78000+8000]
[10366.207793] EXT4-fs (sda): bad geometry: block count 156282966 exceeds size of device (156282701 blocks)
[10855.975855] EXT4-fs (sdb): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[10863.666747] EXT4-fs (sda): bad geometry: block count 156282966 exceeds size of device (156282701 blocks)
[11125.922998] EXT4-fs (sda): bad geometry: block count 156282966 exceeds size of device (156282701 blocks)

Any ideas?

should I check /etc/fstab for something?

gui error - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/545099/error1.png

Answer 1

I found someone with the same problem and who posted an answer here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9485779&postcount=7

1st code line looks like having a bug: of=mnt/usb -> of=/mnt/usb

Have a look if that fixes this for you too! I hope is does :)

Also have a look at fdisk and see if the numbers fdisk show are correct for your disk.

Then there is also the option to use 'testdisk' It is an excellent program to analyse disks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/testdisk

Answer 2

Please post the output of ls /dev/sda* to make sure the device is really /dev/sda not maybe e.g. /dev/sda1

If only /dev/sda is printed: what does $sudo fsck /dev/sda say?

Answer 3

/dev/sda is the entire hard drive. Hard drives are (almost) always partitioned, so you want to mount the partition ( sda1? ).

If you really did format the entire drive without partitions, then it appears that the drive has shrank a bit since you first formatted it.

Answer 4

use sudo fdisk -l to list your partitions then mount the partition.

mount /dev/sdxy /media/myMountFolder

replacing sdxy with the appropriate partition, eg. sda1.