"wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock" error while mounting FAT Drives
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I am unable to mount any fat32
or fat16
formatted usb disks under Ubuntu 13.10.
The thing here to note is that it is happening only with fat
formatted Disks. ntfs
, ext
formatted external usb disks work well
(I tried formatting the same with ext4
and it worked)
While mounting via nautilus
:
Error while mounting from terminal:
root@shubham-pc:~# mount -t vfat /dev/sdc1 /media/shubham/n
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc1,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
As suggested by the error:
Output from dmesg | tail
root@shubham-pc:~# dmesg | tail
[ 3545.482598] scsi8 : usb-storage 1-1:1.0
[ 3546.481530] scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access SanDisk Cruzer 1.26 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 3546.482373] sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
[ 3546.483758] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdc] 15633408 512-byte logical blocks: (8.00 GB/7.45 GiB)
[ 3546.485254] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
[ 3546.485262] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
[ 3546.488314] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 3546.499820] sdc: sdc1
[ 3546.503388] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 3547.273396] FAT-fs (sdc1): IO charset iso8859-1 not found
Output from fsck.vfat
:
root@shubham-pc:~# fsck.vfat /dev/sdc1
dosfsck 3.0.16, 01 Mar 2013, FAT32, LFN
/dev/sdc1: 1 files, 1/1949978 clusters
All normal
Tried re-creating the whole partition table and then formatting as fat32
but to no avail so the possibility of corrupted drive is ruled out.
Tried the same with around 4 Disks or so and all have the same things
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