[Solved!] Hdd will not mount when formatted to ext4

[nonekiller]

when I try to mount my hdd when it is formated to ext4 it will give me this error:
Error mounting system-managed device /dev/sda1: Command-line `mount "/mnt/sda1"' exited with non-zero exit status 32: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

then when i type in "dmesg | tail" terminal i get:
[ 110.665895] EXT4-fs (sda1): Unrecognized mount option "x-gvfs-show" or missing value
[ 575.989223] EXT4-fs (sda1): Unrecognized mount option "x-gvfs-show" or missing value

I know that the hdd works because if i format it as ntfs it works just fine, can someone help me?
PS. my fstab is:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sdb5 during installation
UUID=222d9078-879f-43af-b41d-04ee41f2ea78 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sdb6 during installation
UUID=3dea3943-aa29-4f08-a18c-94d528f6a83a none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0
/dev/sdb2 /mnt/sdb2 auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0
/dev/sda2 /mnt/sda2 auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0

[karlchen]

Hello, nonekiller.

/dev/sda1 has been formatted to filesystem ext4. The corresponding line in fstab has to specify ext4 as the filesystem type, not x-gvfs-show.
Therefore the corresponding line should read

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/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks 0 0

HTH,
Karl

[nonekiller]

ok so i edited my fstab with the line you gave me and it dosent show up in the gui(i use the hdd for backups) but if i add x-gvfs-show to the end of your line it shows but the same error occurs, any ideas?
If i mount it with "sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1" it'll show in /mnt/sda1 but i cant edit it,but it will mount fine with that command besides the fact i dont have permission to edit it. I would think it would have somthing to do with useing sudo to mount it, but it would not let me mount it without using sudo. sry i don't know much about linux, i switched over last month.
on a side note i think i gave you post 666 :p

[cecar]

Try in terminal

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sudo chown -R yourusername:yourusername /mnt/sda1

Change yourusername to whatever your username is.

[karlchen]

Hi, cecar. Hello, nonekiller.

I got my fstab entry by

• opening Nautilus
• clicking on the device /dev/sda1, displayed with its label "lm13cinn" here, thus mounting it
• running the command mount as well as cat /etc/mtab
• replacing my mount point /media/lm13cinn by /mnt/sda1

Yet, and this was very likely my mistake: I neglected to check the owner and group of the mount point /media/lm13cinn.

So I assume that after running the commandline given by you, cecar, once, /dev/sda1 should be mounted on /mnt/sda1 without further hassle. (I do hope so.)

Kind regards,
Karl

[altair4]

For what it's worth:

Udisks has been rewritten ( udisks2 ) and the "Disks" utility ( aka gnome-disk-utility, aka Palimpsest ) has been rewritten for it ( by the same developer ) which is why you have the x-gvfs-show option showing up. "x-gvfs-show" forces the device to show up in the UI where it was never intended. The whole thing is a mess really and multiple bug reports have already been submitted.

My suggestion is you go back to doing it the old way:

** Don't use /dev/sdxy use UUID's. You have multiple physical disks so you are just asking for trouble if you don't use UUID's.
** Don't use x-gvfs-show. If you want it to show up in say Nemo or wherever just bookmark it.

Here is an ext4 template:

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UUID=076426af-cbc5-4966-8cd4-af0f5c879646 /media/Data ext4 defaults,noatime 0 2

Run the following command to find the right UUID number for your partition:

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sudo blkid -c /dev/null

With the right UUID number you would replace this line in fstab:

/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0

With something that looks like this:

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UUID=076426af-cbc5-4966-8cd4-af0f5c879646 /mnt/sda1 ext4 defaults,noatime 0 2

To make it show up in the file manager bookmark it:
Open Nemo and go to /mnt/sda1 then select Bookmarks > Add Bookmark

[nonekiller]

Thanks karlchen,cecar, and altair4 for your prompt help this problem now has been resolved, i set all my hdd to use the uuid and got the hdd permissions set properly.

-nonekiller

[karlchen]

Hello, nonekiller.

Glad to learn that you have achieved your goal, in particular with the help of altair4's post.


Hello, altair4.

Thank you for drawing my/our attention to the differences implemented in Ubuntu 12.10/Mint 14 as compared to Ubuntu 12.04/Mint 13. - I admit that I had done my tests on ancient Lucid Lynx (Ubuntu 10.04) before writing my reply.

Cheers,
Karl