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I am running Ubuntu 15.10 in VMware Workstation. HOST OS -WINDOWS 10

Now my hard disk is full and i attached a new vmdk hard disk and rebooted the system but while trying to mount it using sudo /dev/sdb1 /data it's giving following error 

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb

How to properly mount hard vmdk disk?

Karamzov
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A vmdk disk for a virtual system is like a bare hardware disk for a native system. You can't mount bare disks, only filesystems. So you have to partition your vmdk disk and make filesystems on it (with gparted and mkfs).

Partitioning gives you a partition named /dev/sdb1. Then you create a filesystem with for example mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sdb1. Now you can mount /dev/sdb1.

muclux
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